Re: Celtic, semitic, etc.

At 13:21 28/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>...even tho the Welsh language has official status in Wales & is more
>>widely used than Irish?  Even tho the Bretons form the largest
>>Celtic-speaking group?
>
>That's education for you! Welsh is probably thought to be a funny
>kind of English and Breton almost assuredly is thought to be French.
>
True, I've heard that from very uneducated French people (and by
uneducated, I don't mean unschooled. One can even be a professor and yet be
uneducated, some of you gave us examples yesterday :) ). The worst I've
heard (but it was only due to ignorance and he accepted my correction with
pleasure) is when a friend of mine told me that Basque was merely a dialect
of Spanish. Well, he won't make the same mistake again :) .

                                                Christophe Grandsire
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