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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Russian vowel  bI
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In article <3kcq7c$167k@news.ccit.arizona.edu> hlu@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu
(Hung J Lu) writes:

>I just made a trip to Russia, and I am affraid that cyrillic writing was far
>more difficult to get used to than what I have expected. Despite that Russian
>is an Indoeuropean language, I was not able to pick up but a few simple
>phrases. Sigh...

This puts me in mind of the reported reaction of (oh, what's the name?
something English) who decided that there was no such thing as the Altaic
family of languages because he could not read _The Secret History of the
Mongols_ based on his knowledge of Turkish.

[much elided --rma]

>Georgian looked very exotic... a completely different language with a
>completely different alphabet.

A completely different language *family*...
-- 
Rich Alderson		[Tolkien quote temporarily removed in favour of
alderson@netcom.com	 proselytizing comment below --rma]

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