Re: Ossetian sociolinguistics?

On Aug 18, 11:51 pm, Craoibhi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 18, 10:41 pm, Darkstar <darkstar...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:



John Atkinson wrote:
Darkstar wrote:
With the only additional comment that the distinction between North
and South in the East Iranian languages can hardly be shown to be
valid. Ossetic is actually sort of close to the Pamir languages, yet
quite distinct, and sort of a stray cow. But I'm not going to prove
that now, it's just that there's no proof for the traditional
distinction.

Since I don't know what evidence the advocates of the "traditional" view
adduce, I have no opinion as to whether this is correct or not. Do you
have references?

Do you agree that Yaghnobi (and its ancestor, Sogdian) is closer to
Ossetic than it is to the other Pamir languages, the ones that, together
with Pashto and a few other Afghan languages, are traditionally called
"South-East Iranian"?

[...]

This is such a complex issue I don't want to discuss it now.

Oh, certainly not. Being a Russian, you are too busy liberating Earth,
the old Russian planets, from fascist inorodtsy, aren't you?

I told you to get laid with an Armenian girl, not go raping and
killing Georgian girls. But of course, I already know you. You hate us
inferior non-Russian races so much that you can't tell a Finn from a
Latvian, or an Armenian from a Georgian. And as regards getting laid
with a girl, you don't know the difference between that and raping and
killing her.

Hog Loony, why won't you stop digging the dung for a while? This is
not a hoggish hate-energizing forum!

BTW Darkstar is not a Russian at all, he is a half Georgian half Jew
who lives in Russia.

DV
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