Re: FWD [OT but interesting] Arctic people seek common alphabet
| From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 15, 2002, 21:53 |
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In response to:
--- Christopher Wright <faceloran@...> wrote:
> That doesn't sound like a big problem. If I was an
> Inuit, I wouldn't
> speak to other people on the basis of common race.
> Race is so trivial. As
> John Cowan pointed out, it is unlikely that people
> in Russia and
> Greenland and Canada could use an Inuit language to
> facilitate
> communication.
The common factor here is not race but language. The
most common ethinc heritage in the United States is
German, but we speak English. Therefore, we more
closely identify with the English than with the
Germans.
Clint
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