[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re - http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@native-lang.openoffice.org/msg00949.html
Gentlemen,
There is no such thing as Eurasian Language Group. It does not exist.
There is, however, an OOo Group for Eurasian languages. It was just
formed. Perhaps you've read about it.
Russian is a European language, Indo-European and Slavic, a close relative
of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Sorbian (in Germany), and
also related to English, German, French, Latin BUT NOT directly to Azeri
or Turkish.
Cultural, historic, linguistic relations between Turkish and Russian are
far smaller than either between Russian and French or Russian and German
(never mind Russian and Polish or Russian and Ukrainian which are related
as closely as two branches of the same language). Neither Russia nor
Ukrainian nothing to do in the company of Azeri..
Regardless of whether this outrageous grouping was arranged because of
some politics or ignorance, lumping of all those dissimilar and
unrelated – historically or linguistically, is unjustified and
The people actually doing the work seem to disagree with you on this point.
--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W.
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
-- C. S. Lewis. "An Experiment in Criticism"
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