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

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:50:01 +0000

In message <LXp0e.9467$C7.493@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, John Atkinson
<johnacko@bigpond.com> writes
>
>"Des Small" <des.small@bristol.ac.uk> wrote...
>
>> "John Atkinson" <johnacko@bigpond.com> writes:
>>
>> > "Comm" <tjsrno@spampost.com> wrote...
>> >
>> > > How do I know they used to lie to non-Gypsies?
>> > > Uh, one of them TOLD me?
>> >
>> > And, since you're a non-gypsy, this proves what?
>>
>> Comm _told us_ she's a non-Gypsy.
>>
>> Clearly, Comm _is_ a Gypsy, but has been lying to us on the assumption
>> we're not, and her Gypsy acquaintance could tell her the truth without
>> problems. It's the only logical explanation!
>
>But... but... if Comm is a Gypsy, she must have been lying to us when
>she told us that one of her Gypsy friends told her that Gypsies lie to
>non-Gypsies. Therefore ...

... she must be a Cretan.
>
>> Des
>> is glad we've sorted that out.
>
>John
>You can't get out of it that easy.
> 

-- 
Richard Herring

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