Betreft: Re: Celtic, semitic, etc.
From: | Rob Nierse <rnierse@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 8:04 |
>>> Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...> 04/29 11:39 >>>
The worst I've
heard (but it was only due to ignorance and he accepted my correction with
pleasure) is when a friend of mine told me that Basque was merely a dialect
of Spanish. Well, he won't make the same mistake again :) .
--->
The worst I heard was (when I told that I studied American Indian languages):
'I thought that they had no languages and that they used sign language and
smoke signals for communication instead".
And he was serious.
Rob