Re: Favourite Language Group?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 5, 2002, 16:04 |
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From: "Pavel Iosad" <pavel_iosad@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Favourite Language Group?
> Hello,
>
> > What's everyone's favourite language group(s)?
>
> Top 10 (in no particular order):
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> - Germanic (no taunting!)
Nah, I like Germanic...apart from that filthy French-polluted English...
> - Finno-Ugric
Can't disagree with that...
> - Celtic
Quite...beaustiful collection of languages.
> - Paleoasiatic
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> - Slavic
I like Slavic, but I don't know enough about it to love it...
> - Sino-Tibetan
Yes, it's nice...
> - ancient Semitic (Cl. Arabic, Ugaritic, Bibl. Hebrew..)
Don't know enough
> - Caucasian (hey, I'm in the world's top Caucasology center! :-))
Where's that? Daghestan? I'd like to learn Georgian someday...Kartvelian is
meant to be like IE, but different...
> - Mon-Khmer, Miao-Yao and sundry continental SE Asia languages
sorry, don't know enough...again...
> - Fula (I name the language, because I'm no expert at the tangle of
> languages W Africa is in)
again...
> ...many more when I get to know them better :-)
>
> Bottom:
> - I cordially dislike Romance, with perhaps the sole exception of
> Romanian
Well, I detest French...Beautiful language? What a joke. I like Latin,
Romanian, and possibly Sardinian, if I got to know it.
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