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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: Balts and Slavs (was Good Finn......)
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 21:28:32 GMT
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Marek1@ix.netcom.com (Marek Konski) writes:

>In <3irbeo$v1e@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> pv02@navier.me.lehigh.edu (Peter Vorobieff) writes: 

>I've already read in another group a guy from Serbia who considered every word in every Indo-European 
>language for which a Slavic cognate could be found to be a Slavic word and nothing else and all peoples 
>using those words from England to India to be Slavs. What was posted here was of the same sort. 

Ah, yes. Alex Cosic. I still remember his post; i.e. Romans look like
Serbs. Britain was full of Slavs. Scythians were Slavs. Slavs
invented the phonetic alphabet. Civilization spread to the rest
of the world from Slavs, on and on and on .... In a way I can
understand why it must be so. This way no one can claim that
Slavs have/had empires and have lands that doesn't/didn't belong
to them. This way , since everyplace was already Slavic at one
time, there is no Russian Empire since all the lands were theirs
anyway. And there was no Serbian Empire, all the lands were theirs
anyway, all the way south including Egypt and Rome.


This is standard behavior. There were jokes about this dating back 
about 20 years about how everything is either Russian or was invented
by a Russian.

It even made  it to Star Trek. In some episodes you can see 
Chekov make claims about how certain things are Russian, all
for comic effect of course.

--

Regards, Mark

hubey@amiga.montclair.edu
