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New Huh?!? But "European" ISN'T a *linguistic* grouping!!!
Look it up -- you got your Germanic languages, your Slavic languages, your Romance languages... But no "Euroic" linguistic group.

Oh, you mean your good ol' "Indo-European" super-group? Well, for one thing, that's largely irrelevant, since it has more to do with really, *really* ancient lingo-history than with any even remotely living cultural memory: Fucking *sanskrit* belongs to it -- are you going to say _India_ is part of Europe, too?!? (Actually, I thought you were going to, already -- on the grounds that it once "belonged to" the Brits... Do you see now, how stupid *that* argument was?)

And for another, if you insist on going with it, then yes, the Poles *are* Europeans: Just like the Romance and Germanic languages, the Slavic languages are a part of the Indo-European language family. And the Balkans, with the possible exception of Albania (I think their language is Ur-European, i.e, *pre-*dating the "Indo-European" languages on the continent (kind of like Basque), but I'm not sure) are populated by *Slavic*-speakers, not "Asians".

Oh, BTW, it seems you're lumping the Estonians in with the Poles, as Slavs / Slavic-speakers, right...? (You weren't explicit, but judging from your sentence structure.) If so, that's wrong -- Eesti is a Fenno-Ugric language, like Finnish and Hungarian. And no, that doesn't make them "Asian" either: The western branches of the Fenno-Ugric language family have been European languages -- by virtue of being spoken *in Europe* -- for millennia.

Look, why can't you just accept the (to me, blindingly obvious) fact that you don't know shit about this all, and take my word for it when I tell you that I *do*?

Otherwise, you'll just come off like a half-mad neolithic medicine man on speed, claiming to be "explaining" nuclear physics to... say, a junior high school physics teacher.
   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
New How many root words in the English language
can be traced to Fenno-Ugric, Slavic, Maygar. None or damn few. Because they are asian. If they were european they would have integrated like the rest of the mutts and shown up in the polyglot called english. They didnt spend enough time in to qualify.
Now where is that physics teacher that needs an explaination?
thanx,
bill
tshirt front "born to die before I get old"
thshirt back "fscked another one didnja?"
New Try these.
English -- Slavic (for some values of Slavic)

sister --- "sestra"
brother -- "brat"
mother --- "mata"
milk ----- "moloko"
water ---- "woda"

Not identical, but clearly related (no pun intended). As CRC says, Indo-European roots.
Alex

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
New not valid germanic influence
see British love for unflavored grain alchohol -10.
thanx,
bill
tshirt front "born to die before I get old"
thshirt back "fscked another one didnja?"
New Stop being such an utter fuckwit. You're just plain WRONG!!!
     and CRC was pissed about Turkey wanting in the EU - (boxley) - (25)
         I wasn't so much "pissed (off)" about it, as that I just... - (CRConrad) - (24)
             I don't recall 100%.... - (addison) - (4)
                 Re: I don't recall 100%.... - (Steve Lowe) - (3)
                     But is that... - (addison) - (2)
                         Convenience - (Steve Lowe) - (1)
                             I think it was the tribes that limited eastern expansion - (boxley)
             Asia Minor usually considered part of europe - (boxley) - (18)
                 It is? By whom??? - (CRConrad) - (17)
                     Heh.. French *Guiana* !?! - (Ashton) - (8)
                         The Danes do have Greenland. - (a6l6e6x) - (4)
                             Yabut a climate just as ugly - only opposite temp direction! -NT - (Ashton)
                             Yeah, they kept it when Iceland broke free. So what? -NT - (CRConrad) - (2)
                                 Ashton was obsolving Danes of New World "colonies". -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
                                     Ah, OK,I see. But since the prevailing definition of "New... - (CRConrad)
                         Well, there was at one point. - (mhuber) - (2)
                             And what continental shelf, exactly, do you think... - (CRConrad) - (1)
                                 Sure, for some values of "Europe" - (mhuber)
                     Mussolini, DeGaul Ceasar the Norse - (boxley) - (7)
                         Bullshit! (Or should I say, "Ox-crap!"?) You're *gibbering*. - (CRConrad) - (6)
                             Poles are European? - (boxley) - (5)
                                 Huh?!? But "European" ISN'T a *linguistic* grouping!!! - (CRConrad) - (4)
                                     How many root words in the English language - (boxley) - (3)
                                         Try these. - (a6l6e6x) - (2)
                                             not valid germanic influence - (boxley) - (1)
                                                 Stop being such an utter fuckwit. You're just plain WRONG!!! -NT - (CRConrad)

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