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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Good Finn is a dead and buried one?
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 19:33:45 GMT
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In article <3ips0i$9sl@decaxp.harvard.edu> verbit@coxeter.harvard.edu (Misha Verbitsky) writes:
>In article <3ipb4s$60h@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Marek1@ix.netcom.com (Marek Konski) writes:
>>In <3ip64m$7rr@decaxp.harvard.edu> verbit@coxeter.harvard.edu (Misha Verbitsky) writes: 
>>>	The distinction between Balts and Slavs is blurry [...].
>>
>>This seems to be most improbable. Who did blur it? Anybody who speaks 
>>any Slavic language should see that this distinction is clear.
>
>	I left out the explanation which I posted in the "other article",

Which you didn't crosspost to sci.lang, I take it.

>but for anecdotical evidence, look out something written
>in Lithuanian. About half of the roots are Slavic,

About half of the roots are *shared with* Slavic.  Anyway, so what?
How does the vocabulary shared by the two subgroups of the Balto-Slavic
group of the Indo-European branch of the Indo-Hittite family prove that
the distinction between them is blurred?

>and grammar is also quite familiar to anyone speaking a Slavic language.

And is quite obviously non-Slavic for all that.

>       I lived in both republics and used to look their
>       newspapers for linguistical curiousity.

Didn't your linguistic curiosity also urge you to look at some popular
booklet on linguistics?

-- 
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Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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