Re: CHAT: proto-language
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 28, 1998, 8:08 |
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BP.Jonsson wrote:
> Well, do all English speakers have genes in common with Aelfred of Wessex?
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> 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.