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--- John Cowan skrzypszy: > Germanic is really F-Celtic-Italic. I think that one qualifies for your essentialist explanations. > I collected the names of languages used in this expression once, over a bunch > of natlangs. "Greek" and "Chinese" were dominant, but I also collected > "Hebrew" (for Danish), and "Turkish" (for Italian). I particularly liked > the following phrase: "Parlo italiano o turco ottomano?!" In Dutch it is definitely Chinese. In Polish too, I think. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer