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

From: Comm (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:38:31 GMT

"Lee Sau Dan" <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message
news:87wtrx16bf.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de...
>>>>> "Comm" == Comm <no@spam.com> writes:

    Comm> Woah - Turanian type people conquered MANY times and had
    Comm> dynasties in what's now China. Chinese might deny that thru
    Comm> the walls now - but it's the truth. China also tried to
    Comm> conquer us! Marrying the women, sending the conquered men
    Comm> far away - a form of genocide thru the front door as we see
    Comm> it. They do not or can not eat the same food we eat! So
    Comm> offspring unable to eat our own food? Heh. It's like when
    Comm> Dr. Lu said my grandfather was Chinese. If he said that TO
    Comm> my grandfather, he'd probably be dead. It's a statement
    Comm> with a LOT of "other" meanings to it. Saying it to me - eh,
    Comm> so what. I like Dr. Lu and I like the Chinese. Shoot me
    Comm> now. LOL. I don't think there are ANY of our words in the
    Comm> Chinese language - and surely none of their words are in
    Comm> ours.

> What are the words for tea and silk in your language?

Phonetic: (the alphabet is not the same....so)
Tsai (ai like the word eye) - tea
Targa - silk.
Tagrani kharkhoy or karkoy (depends on who says it) = silkworm.

Byah yich ptooey - the tea. Some love it. I used to like it. Now?
Blyahhh. Give me Lipton anyday :) Or Arizona Green Tea with honey.

    Comm> Vietnamese sounds even more like cats. Which brings up this
    Comm> question - does anyone find it odd that people in that part
    Comm> of the world speak in TONES?

>That's a large part of the world. And that's not the only part of the
>world where people speak with tones.

Well, I don't think Koreans, Japanese, Inuit speak in tones, and no kind of
Altaic people speak in tones. I know it's a large part of the world - but
imo it's amazing that they speak in tones like that.

    Comm> No one else does

> You're wrong.

OK. Thanks for saying who else speaks in tones :) Errr.

    Comm> - even if some of us have tonality in the way we speak -
    Comm> sort of - we don't use the same tones for the same words.
    Comm> On the other hand, related languages should sound similar

> Ask an English speaker to listen to Swiss German, and see if he thinks
those 2 languages "sound similar".

I see people from Switzerland and Germany all the time at the beach (I live
where many foreigners come to vacation, btw). They sound similar to me.
It's subjective.

> Personally, I find French and Italian sound very different, although
they're closely related.

I agree., French sounds like nothing else I've ever heard. Italian sounds a
bit like Spanish to me. I'm not the only one that says that the French
sound like people talking with a mouthful of food. 

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