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prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Wed Feb 5 16:26:56 CST 2003


> >> Of course, the West is Middle Eastern in origin.
> >
> > No, it's Indo-European in origin.
> 
> "Indo-European" is a modern-day invention. Noone knows if such a people 
> ever existed. It's all theory...

So are all "facts." However, some group of people who used roughly 
the same language were Indo-European in their course of empire. So 
it's worth calling them "Indo-European" for now and letting someone 
else tackle the Semantics.

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