Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: António Marques (m.ap_at_sapo.pt)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 01:08:54 +0000

John Atkinson wrote:

> Bob Dixon and Sasha Aikhenvald, in "The Amazonian Languages", definitely
> specify "King John V" and "1727". But they don't give their source for
> this.

Well, the king may have ensued from the date - the date may have been
mistaken - but supposedly there is a 1757 decree. Which won't preclude a
1727 one.

> Your man Pombal was a right *** (...)

Who put his statue at the apex of *Liberty* Avenue in Lisbon? Oliveira
Salazar. That ain't a coincidence...

No, really. The statue was begun 7 years before Salazar was even born
(though completed aeons later). Iirc.

> But he does
> seem to have really had the good of the Indians at heart (...)

He was the archetypal 'enlightened despot', and wasn't too white himself
(mixed east indian, again iirc). I do wonder if such a man actually had room
for any kind of good in his heart, but that's open to interpretation. What
isn't... 

-- 
António Marques
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
  -- Oscar Wilde