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Re: CHAT: proto-language

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, December 28, 1998, 8:08
BP.Jonsson wrote:
> Well, do all English speakers have genes in common with Aelfred of Wessex? > > Race and language can absolutely not be correlated.
*Especially* when you're talking about countries like the US which is a general mixture. English-Speaking Americans are descended from people all on all the inhabited continents - Asians, Europeans, Africans, Australians, North Americans, South Americans, and Pacific Islanders. A person whose ancestors might've spoken !Xu~ or Chinese or French can be found speaking English.