Re: Japanese learning, is anybody as frustrated as me?

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: 11 Dec 2004 06:35:24 GMT

James Rose <ceo@fat24.com> dixit:
>jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote on 12/10/04 4:36 PM:

JR>>> and imparting
JR>>> their Viking/Roman to their less sophisticated Franco-Germanic conquerees...
>>
>> Franco-Germanic conquerees? Who were they?

>The non-Norman French were largely an ancient Germanic people from Gaul.

The mind boggles. Caesar certainly bungled his ethnographic summary
of the Gauls, but I didn't realise he was that far off the mark.
The Gauls were really Germanii. And no-one at the time knew. 

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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