Re: Lithuanian similarities to IE (was Re: US House of Reps...)

Artem Baguinski wrote:
>
> Paul J Kriha wrote:
> > Stalin, .sta-ali-in. = In a brutish way he kills people any way possible.
> >
> > (resemblance to R.stal', G.Stahl, E.steel is incidental) :-)
>
> of course not. those words were CONSTRUCTED by the Benedictins, they are
> based on the One Language, and in fact were planted in the
> "Indo-European" lexicons so that much later a despot would use them to
> make himself a nickname. the word had to be spread all over eurasia
> because they couldn't know up front were the despot will be born.

Devilishly clever!

Surely the sort of thing that would be attributed rather to the Jesuits
or Dominicans, no, while the Benedictines calmy distill their brandy?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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