On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:03, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:12:15 -0500, > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Pigeon writes: > > > > I was under the impression that "Serbian" was written with Roman > > > > characters, and "Croatian" with Cyrillic, but they were actually > > > > the > > > > ..the other way around. > > > > > > same language, hence "Serbo-Croatian". How close to the truth is > > > > this? > > > > > > "A language is a dialect with its own army and navy." > > > > ..historically, the white man used his military and political power > > and, this language as part of "nation building". ;-) > > As have every other conquering nation or tribe. > > Why do people think that Europeans ..here we go: "Europeans"? Is "Europe" any less part of Asia than India and China? ;-) > are any different than any other > "race"? Before the Renaissance, Europeans were just like the vast > majority of the world's poor are now: scraping out a meager existence, > oppressed by landlords, superstitious, uneducated, and occasionally > conquered, and thus landlord X substituted for landlord Y. ..well, under today's international legal regime with control over 5 out of the 5 veto seats in the UN Security Council, white man qualifies enough as "Herrmensch" to convince me Adolf would have laughted his ass off. Red China Communism came from where? ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
