Re: The Survey ^_^

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen writes:
 >
 > > How many of you were inspired to examine Welsh, Hebrew, or
 > > Finnish because of your examination of Tolkien?
 >
 > I'm inspired to study Hebrew thanks to my Jewish background.  I
 > didn't know Tolkien was into Welsh, and I'm more interested in
 > Lithuanian or Latvian than Finnish (not into the Ural-Mongolian
 > thing; I have little interest in visiting Ulaan Batur or Pyongyang,
 > as it's cold and unfriendly and Communist there.  ^_^ Okay, so the
 > Mongolians aren't Communists (to be perfectly accurate, neither are
 > the North Koreans), but you have to admit, that sentence has a ring
 > to it.  This is what happens when you major in Political Science...
 >

Hmmm... they don't speak an Uralic language in either Ulaanbaatar or
Pyongyang.  Mongolian's Altaic, and Korean's an isolate.  Mind you,
Altaic and Uralic have a number of features in common, but there's no
generally accepted relationship between them.