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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: Balts and Slavs (was Good Finn......)
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In article <hubey.794006912@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
   hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) wrote:
>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.

Which reminds me of something I read in one of the groups light years from 
here...

Did you know that Vasil Vasiliev, the celebrated Russian scientist,
discovered the electric shaver?
No, I did not. Where did he discover it?
In a rubbish bin behind the French Embassy.

Paul JK


