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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);"></span></span><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);"></span></span></font><span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#cc0060"><a href="mailto:clarkedavid8@aol.com">clarkedavid8@aol.com</a></span></span></p>
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font size="2">Subject: <span></span><span class="gI"></span><span class="gI"></span></font><span class="gI">LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.18 (01) [EN]</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span class="gI"><br></span></p>In the 1970s, it was Britain's
turn to be "the sick man of Europe" and I myself remember
being jokingly referred to as "englische Qualität" on an Austrian ski
holiday in the middle of that decade. It never occurred to me to claim
that all other languages were merely degenerate versions of English as a
riposte, however: I think I would have been even more of a laughing
stock if I had made such a claim.<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal">This
sort of thing tends to be based on linguistic ignorance in conjunction
with nationalism that feeds on supposedly glorious bygone age.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">When
he was serving as Turkey’s first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was
trying hard to rekindle confidence among Turks after the country’s
period of being “the sick man of Europe,” which ended with the collapse
of the Ottoman Empire.<br><br>R. F. Hahn<br></div></blockquote></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">From: <a href="mailto:clarkedavid8@aol.com" target="_blank">clarkedavid8@aol.co</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
Subject: <span>LL-L "Language history" 2011.04.15 (03) [EN]</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
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Between the two world wars, the Sun theory of
language development (much favoured by Kemal Ataturk and taught in
Turkish schools and universities for a time) held that all the world's
languages were descended from Turkish and that all words can be derived
from Turkish roots: e.g. the name of the river Amazon comes from the
Turkish words "Ama" (but) and "Uzun" (long). Turkish place names were
changed to bring them closer to what were held to be their original
Turkish roots. I was onced taught ancient Greek by a Greek woman who
held similar beliefs about her own language, so perhaps they are a
feature of that part of the world.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">David Clarke</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9134in; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="http://uk.mc286.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> </div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9134in; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Subject: History </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9134in; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Dear Lowlanders, </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9134in; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> ..... </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9134in; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">(This
article) asserts that recent findings point toward there having been
one proto language, i.e. one ancestor of all of today’s languages. </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.9134in; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Mind you, this is by most considered fringe science.</span><br><span style="color: navy;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color:navy"><br>
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