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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: "Lap" unique to English?/Hungarian similar
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 07:02:09 GMT
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In article <333076a4.4565354@news.exodus.net>,
Bill Vaughan <bill@osisoft.com> wrote:
>deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) wrote:
>
>>... If you really believe in
>>"proto-World", what should be "strange" is the fact that none of the other
>>words for lap yet posted bear the slightest resemblance to either "oel" or
>>"lap", which hardly bear any resemblance to each other.
>
>Hmm. I notice that not all words in French are cognate to those of
>like meaning in Italian. I guess I must stop believing in Latin. And
>waste two years of Mr. Biscetta's* very best tutelage, too. :(

And I see from looking through my Japanese books that Japanese and English
have hundreds, possibly thousands, of words in common.  Gee, I guess they
must be related.  Mamosu guu!




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