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On 2004-07-21 11:02:59, bobafett wrote:
No, i dont understand it. Indeed, we had a kind of relationship a very long time ago, some touches between tribles, but thats all.
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What kind of touching?
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Posted: 2004-07-21 17:46:57
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@bahbahsupercar not that way u are thinking... Btw its a nice thread, we should go off it.
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Posted: 2004-07-21 18:09:48
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I guess Bobbafett would recognize some words like an Englishman would recognize some words in Greek. I also think Finnish and Hungarian have a grammatic system which can be recognized. But a Finn can (with some practice) understand Estonian. The Finn would also recognize lots of words in Saami.
I am English and the only Greek I understand is Kebab, Pitta and Chilli sauce. Please enlighten me
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Posted: 2004-07-22 09:51:24
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Many many many contemporary words in 'western' languages are derived from greek. Words such as bureaucraty or indeed any word ending in -craty, theology, telescope, to name a few. Tele meaning far and scopos meaning to see or view if I'm not mistaken. There are countless words like that.
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Posted: 2004-07-22 10:38:21
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@kristaga the changed name of thread is very nice of u. Takk.
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Posted: 2004-07-22 11:27:42
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Eng. - Greek
mother - mitera
father - pateras
one - ena
two - dyo
three - tria
my - mou
star - asteri
grass - grasidi
The similarity is clear. It is because both originate from Indo-European, which is farther back in time than the common ancestor of Finnish and Hungarian, so the similarities of Hungarian and Finnish are probably more frequent. English (and other European languages) has (have) also a lot of newer loan words from Greek:
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Eng. - Greek.
field - agros (which in English have become the root of agriculture)
politics - politiki
graph - diagrama (which in Egnlish have become diagram)
A linguist would probably know more. I'm just an amateur.
Edit: Vlammetje explained my last point better than me.
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Posted: 2004-07-22 11:33:20
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Only japanese and hungarians use family name first and given name as second.
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Posted: 2004-07-22 12:00:03
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I think the Chinese also do that.
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Posted: 2004-07-22 12:25:35
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@boba - the question I asked - if you understand finnish was because my girlfriend is hungarian and she is able to understand few words in finnish... Of course not everything, but she does... I was surprised that you said no I donīt...
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Posted: 2004-07-22 15:49:29
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Got u, well, there are some identical words, but thats all. To tell the truth i am more interested for the ujgur connection, a chinese tribal, its where we actually came from and the link to japanese.
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Posted: 2004-07-22 16:23:32
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