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Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)

#66793
From: Pekka Pessi
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 00:00
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mor...@killspam.net (Morbius) writes:
> In article <5g93c5$m...@fa.abo.fi>, mandtbac <at> abo <dot> fi wrote:
> > holy moses what a crosspost. note where i put followups; note also the
> > >Well, nobody knows, but Finnish and Hungarian languages do not belong to
> > >Indo-European group of languages - that means they are different from all
> > >European and large number of Asian languages. Think about it - English and
> > >Sanskrit have a lot in common, English and Finnish not...

> > >If I remember coreectly, these are the only languages that do not
> > >have separate words for "he", "she" and "it".
> > 
> > Finnish does indeed not differentiate between he and she (h�n), his
> > and hers (h�nen), but it does make a difference between persons and
> > "it"s.

>   The Hungarians are descendants of the nomadic Huns and they settled in
> the Panavia plain (roughly where Hungary is today). In order for the Finns
> to be related to the Hungarians (and they are) they would have had to have
> shared a common root at some point in history. Perhaps they (the Finns)
> too were nomads, at some point.

	Nope, sorry, you made it wrong. The majority of Huns was killed at
	Katalaunis, but the rest of them was settled in the British Isles.
	Later, in the 16th and the 17th century, the Huns were exiled from
	the isles, and most of them were sent to the colonies.  Nowadays,
	there are lots of Huns there, and it is not easy to tell who is a
	Hun and who is not.

	Just to make it easy for you, here is a bullet-proof way to make
	difference between a Hun and a non-Hun: ask him whether he knows the
	difference between the plural of "him" and the plural of "it".  As
	we all know, the Huns are rather limited in their verbal
	performance, and certainly their descendants are not up to this
	simple task.  

	The people failing this simple question are Huns, and they are only
	suitable for simple tasks, like guarding the concentration camps,
	flaming in the Usenet, or perhaps bashing other niggers.

-- 
Pekka...@hut.fi
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From: Pekka Pessi <ppe...@vanessa.tky.hut.fi>
Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
Date: 1997/03/16
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