Re: slowness...
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 21:53 |
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Ferenc Valoczy wrtoe:
> >For an intelligent man, my dad is pretty thick...I just spent the past 45
> >minutes, trying, unsuccessfully, to convince him that English "Father",
> >German "Vater", French "Pere", Latin "Pater" and Sanskrit "Pitar" are all
> >related...I couldn't get through, it was really aggravating. The only
> >place where he saw a connection is the Latin/Sanskrit, where he said that
> >this just confirms his suspicion that the Romans were Gypsies...
> >
> He didn't accept "father" and "Vater" as related?!?
Oh...yeah, he did that.
>
> >Is it really that hard to grasp that sounds can change, than [p] can
> >become [f]?
> >
> >Anyone else ever have an experience like this?
>
> Well, when I mention some unrecognizeablish words as being related, most of
> my friend just give me a blank look. But I've never met anyone who's refused
> to believe that sounds can change over time.
But the clincher is, he believes the biggest BS theory in history, that
Hungarian is directly descended from Sumerian...
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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