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Posted: Wed 28 Feb, 2007 10:49 am
by King Harold
German and Russian are cousins by taxonomy, as are German and Hindi, and Hungarian and Suomi.
But if their grammar is practically the same, then maybe they should be brothers..
Posted: Wed 28 Feb, 2007 12:32 pm
by CoBB
Beware, such analogies can be deceiving. This is not genetics after all. There's no meaningful way to compare such distances in unrelated families, e.g. the distance between two Finno-Ugric languages to the distance between two Indo-European ones.
Posted: Wed 28 Feb, 2007 1:23 pm
by King Harold
Well, I must say I'm more into genetics than languages, I'm going to study Biology after all (next year)
Posted: Sun 01 Apr, 2007 7:31 pm
by King Harold
To remind some people (especially americans
) of the size of the Dutch Empire
A pity it isn't that big anymore, it isn't even an empire anymore.. Anyway, the Dutch ruled over a substantial percentage of the sea in that time (more than the English).
Posted: Sun 01 Apr, 2007 7:44 pm
by hop
Yeah too bad we're not oppressing other countries any more.
Posted: Mon 02 Apr, 2007 2:14 am
by kalan_vod
hop wrote:Yeah too bad we're not oppressing other countries any more.
But we are helping others stop oppressing
!
Posted: Mon 02 Apr, 2007 1:58 pm
by King Harold
Do you all see that piece of green in america?
also, if you oppress a country, how could it possibly oppress an other country in turn? So make other countries stop oppressing eachother by oppressing them yourself!