01-16-2007, 09:27 PM
Public TV just showed a piece about Human Migrations (Europeans migrating to Tamir Valley somewhere in Mongolia, looks like) which showed a photo of the Sir Jones read out his quote (cut pasted from Husky's post, previous page):
"The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."
...and so concluded with the magic "Indo-European languages". They showed mummified remains of a person from this Mongolia or whatever. They said this mummified body showed white skin and light hair, though you could hardly make out anything on that skull, it all looked like it was covered with chalk powder. <!--emo&
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"The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."
...and so concluded with the magic "Indo-European languages". They showed mummified remains of a person from this Mongolia or whatever. They said this mummified body showed white skin and light hair, though you could hardly make out anything on that skull, it all looked like it was covered with chalk powder. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->