>> My first serious paramour in the university days was a >Pueblo (San-Juan). > I >> fairly thoroughly penetrated that culture but found no >similarities to the >> old country. >> RT > > How many days ( hours) did it take you to thoroughly penetrate the native > American culture. > Michael Thames It took a lot less initial effort than it would with a typical, say, Russian, but lasted a good 2 years. RT
> > >>>> Not totally completely. I actually met a russophone >descendant of > Macedon >>> a >>>> few years ago. Their language has quite a few Greek >words. >>> >>> I live a days drive from the Hopi Indian res. I have visited there a >>> few times and I'm totally amazed at the remarkable simalarities of the >>> Tibetan language and the Hopi. For instance the Hopi word for the moon > is >>> Nyima which means sun in Tibetan, and the Hopi word for sun, Dawa means > moon >>> in Tibetan. For real! >> My first serious paramour in the university days was a Pueblo (San-Juan). > I >> fairly thoroughly penetrated that culture but found no similarities to the >> old country. >> RT >> >> > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
