k.e
Posts: 1948
Joined: Mar. 2006
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Russell you need to know what happened before the Romans  look up
origins celtic language
plus this link below has lots of interesting factoids and links.... yes knowing the history of English will tell you a lot about other languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
try origins french language indo-european
quick overview
http://www.krysstal.com/langfams_indoeuro.html
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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane
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