Re: Lin: clauses - Part 1.
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Monday, April 15, 2002, 6:58 |
En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
>
> In truth, Indo-Aryan is the center, and the European part of
> Indo-European
> is the periphery. The I-E languages would be impoverished indeed
> if the Asian languages in it did not exist; we would probably never
> have
> discovered I-E as a language.
>
I was talking about our perception of us Westerners. Our mind is centered
around a Greco-Latino-Germanic center, and everything out of it is delightfully
refreshing for us. Your remark only proves my point :))) .
Christophe.
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