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To: ZULU

Go argue with the linguistics experts.
I'm merely passing along their findings.


[a bit combative, aren't we?]


48 posted on 04/23/2006 2:11:46 AM PDT by Salamander (Cursed With Second Sight)
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To: Salamander

A get combative when I read something preposterous - like people of one ethnic group being unable to properly frame some sound due an imagined physical consistency involving some alleged anatomical feature.

People are people and anybody with practise can learn to speak any language.

An Icelander could learn to click like a Bushman and a Bushman could learn classical Latin with the proper motivation and practise.

There are a lot of "experts" in linguistics and physical anthropology who are closet racists. Different ethnic groups tend to display certain physical features but I think linking those features to an ability to enunciate a certain sound is rather stretching it.

Sort of like Erich von Daneken and his ilk and their theories about pyramids and space visitors.


50 posted on 04/23/2006 2:20:45 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Salamander

Uh.. is that your picture with the red hair on your website??

Foreget ANYTHING I said. You're always right in my eyes.

Your husband is a very lucky guy.


51 posted on 04/23/2006 2:23:18 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Salamander
[a bit combative, aren't we?]

Hey--you're the Celt! LOL...

56 posted on 04/23/2006 4:41:55 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must)
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