Sören Kuklau wrote: > On 3/24/2002 10:23 PM, Martin Fritsche apparently wrote exactly the > following: > >> Ben Bucksch wrote: >> >>> I read somewhere no the web: "English (and German) are not >>> Latin-based; they're Germanic, not Romance." >> >> >> >> That's why it's called German and not Roman :-Ş >> >> And especially for the readers of The Sun: There is no known >> influence from the huns. ;-) >> > > German is Indogermanic, as is English. > > French, Italian, Spanish etc. are Romanic. > > Russian etc. are... hmm... Hunnic? >
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