How many root words in the English language

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Post #13,981 by boxley 10/18/01 1:25:51 PM Reply	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?"
Post #14,037 by a6l6e6x 10/18/01 5:14:56 PM Reply	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)
Post #14,093 by boxley 10/18/01 11:41:25 PM Reply	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?"
Post #14,136 by CRConrad 10/19/01 4:37:37 AM Reply	Stop being such an utter fuckwit. You're just plain WRONG!!!

and CRC was pissed about Turkey wanting in the EU - (boxley) - (25) - Oct. 15, 2001, 10:03:15 PM EDT

I wasn't so much "pissed (off)" about it, as that I just... - (CRConrad) - (24) - Oct. 17, 2001, 12:51:22 PM EDT

I don't recall 100%.... - (addison) - (4) - Oct. 17, 2001, 12:55:35 PM EDT

Re: I don't recall 100%.... - (Steve Lowe) - (3) - Oct. 17, 2001, 01:16:30 PM EDT

But is that... - (addison) - (2) - Oct. 17, 2001, 01:33:04 PM EDT

Convenience - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - Oct. 17, 2001, 03:01:59 PM EDT

I think it was the tribes that limited eastern expansion - (boxley) - Oct. 17, 2001, 03:11:16 PM EDT

Asia Minor usually considered part of europe - (boxley) - (18) - Oct. 17, 2001, 01:15:18 PM EDT

It is? By whom??? - (CRConrad) - (17) - Oct. 17, 2001, 04:02:01 PM EDT

Heh.. French *Guiana* !?! - (Ashton) - (8) - Oct. 17, 2001, 04:35:42 PM EDT

The Danes do have Greenland. - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - Oct. 17, 2001, 05:53:24 PM EDT

Yabut a climate just as ugly - only opposite temp direction! -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 17, 2001, 07:14:18 PM EDT

Yeah, they kept it when Iceland broke free. So what? -NT - (CRConrad) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2001, 08:54:11 AM EDT

Ashton was obsolving Danes of New World "colonies". -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:00:19 PM EDT

Ah, OK,I see. But since the prevailing definition of "New... - (CRConrad) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:42:03 PM EDT

Well, there was at one point. - (mhuber) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:52:59 AM EDT

And what continental shelf, exactly, do you think... - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 08:54:49 AM EDT

Sure, for some values of "Europe" - (mhuber) - Oct. 18, 2001, 11:26:57 AM EDT

Mussolini, DeGaul Ceasar the Norse - (boxley) - (7) - Oct. 17, 2001, 09:49:26 PM EDT

Bullshit! (Or should I say, "Ox-crap!"?) You're *gibbering*. - (CRConrad) - (6) - Oct. 18, 2001, 08:53:47 AM EDT

Poles are European? - (boxley) - (5) - Oct. 18, 2001, 08:59:09 AM EDT

Huh?!? But "European" ISN'T a *linguistic* grouping!!! - (CRConrad) - (4) - Oct. 18, 2001, 09:48:59 AM EDT

How many root words in the English language - (boxley) - (3) - Oct. 18, 2001, 01:25:51 PM EDT

Try these. - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2001, 05:14:56 PM EDT

not valid germanic influence - (boxley) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2001, 11:41:25 PM EDT

Stop being such an utter fuckwit. You're just plain WRONG!!! -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 19, 2001, 04:37:37 AM EDT

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