Spelling of a capital IJ

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Wed 28 Feb, 2007 10:49 am

German and Russian are cousins by taxonomy, as are German and Hindi, and Hungarian and Suomi.
But if their grammar is practically the same, then maybe they should be brothers..

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Wed 28 Feb, 2007 12:32 pm

Beware, such analogies can be deceiving. This is not genetics after all. There's no meaningful way to compare such distances in unrelated families, e.g. the distance between two Finno-Ugric languages to the distance between two Indo-European ones.

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Wed 28 Feb, 2007 1:23 pm

Well, I must say I'm more into genetics than languages, I'm going to study Biology after all (next year)

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Sun 01 Apr, 2007 7:31 pm

To remind some people (especially americans

) of the size of the Dutch Empire

A pity it isn't that big anymore, it isn't even an empire anymore.. Anyway, the Dutch ruled over a substantial percentage of the sea in that time (more than the English).

hop · Post by **hop** » Sun 01 Apr, 2007 7:44 pm

Yeah too bad we're not oppressing other countries any more.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Mon 02 Apr, 2007 2:14 am

hop wrote:Yeah too bad we're not oppressing other countries any more.

But we are helping others stop oppressing

!

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Mon 02 Apr, 2007 1:58 pm

Do you all see that piece of green in america?

also, if you oppress a country, how could it possibly oppress an other country in turn? So make other countries stop oppressing eachother by oppressing them yourself!