X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,ef84650dd3e606e5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-03 10:01:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "lastfuture (Peter Marquardt)" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: what is it? Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 19:02:08 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 17 Message-ID: <10K7Oxe2HC7ueHjDKOHIt7LByHMu@4ax.com> References: <3BB60DC7.2060108@sdf.lonestar.org> <3bb7a117$0$219$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3bb9ad77$0$80799$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3bba5852$0$269$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3iblrtsmh3df29rsikmnbmtkitdtsvmim7@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1002128444 06 29006 wkf4SOVXSzaJXQ 011003 17:00:45 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520084321266-0001@t-dialin.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:8310 >I think Germany/German has the largest number of word roots for it in >foreign languages of any country, language, or people -- there's >"deutsch/duits", "German/Germaniya", "tysk", "Saksa" (in Finnish), >"allemand/alem�o", "nemets" (in Russian), .... And Italian "tedesco", >though that might fit in with Scandinavian "tysk". two of them remind me of germany's groups of people with different accents Saksa : the saxons / die Sachsen (north-east) allemand: the ...? / die Allemannen (south-west) seen from a geographical point of view it's quite logical because finland is in the north/north-east and france is in the west/south-west. interesting :)