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Subject: Re: Finnish related to Turkish?
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In article <56qu7k$j9l@chaos.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be>
Maarten.Vidal@student.kuleuven.ac.be (Maarten Vidal) writes:

>In article <56prsq$fps@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
>jlawler@qbert.rs.itd.umich.edu (John M. Lawler) says:

>>Makes a nice story, but it's false as stated.  If Japanese is related
>>(however distantly) to Hungarian and Finnish, it has to be related to pretty
>>much all the other languages in between that aren't Indo-European like
>>Russian, [....]
>>-------

>Your article was very interesting. However, Russian IS like the other Slavic
>languages one of the Indo-European languages, but I suppose you know and this
>was just a little mistake.

No, you've mis-parsed what he said.

You read it as

	languages (that aren't Indo-European) like Russian

where what he said was

	languages that aren't (Indo-European like Russian)

I'm quite sure that Prof. Lawler knows that Russian is an IE language...
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
