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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: Etruscans [was: Re: The Coming of the Greeks]
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In article <328A9D57.3B50@scruznet.com>,
Mike Wright  <darwin@scruznet.com> wrote:

>Peninsular Arabic had a much more sophisticated vocabulary with regard
>to camels that any of the modern dialects. ...

	This is most likely a result of having much more reason to 
discuss camels and their features in centuries past than today. Simply 
consider the specialized vocabularies of any field for more current 
examples. In effect, the inverse Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that thought 
determines language, is *very* well supported.

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