Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 15, 2000, 12:59 |
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:
> My friend Ian Yin from Hong Kong jokingly thinks that the reason why
> "White folk" have always been highly aggressive & imperialistic
> cuz "they lived in caves longer than most other peoples...
Um. And I suppose the five million cave-dwellers in China today account
similarly for the well-known imperialistic tendencies of the Han?
We may be on to something!
:-)
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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