Re: XML storing and management
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:58:44 -0300
Message-ID: <46fc5198$0$4039$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
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> According to wikipedia, Sir William Jones believed that Sanskrit and
> Latin had a common ancestor, not that one was derived from the other.
>
> I guess it depends on how valid you deem the source. But then I also
> like to believe wikipedia was written by one jolly person, without
> much of a life, but an unending supply of donuts. Its like a safety
> blanket for me.
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:58:44 -0300
Message-ID: <46fc5198$0$4039$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
JOG wrote:
> On Sep 28, 1:31 am, "V.J. Kumar" <vjkm..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Jan Hidders <hidd..._at_gmail.com> wrote innews:1190926317.715110.61110_at_g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com: >> >>... >> >>>>There is an essay written [by Codd] called "A Relational Model of >>>>Data for Large Shared Data Banks". "Sapienti sat !" as they say in >>>>Sanskrit. >> >>>They do? Tha'ts funny. We say that in Latin. :-) >> >>Yeah, Latin is just a Hindi-European dialect Sanskrit simplified for >>Europeans' use as Sir William Jones discovered to his utter amazement >>more than 200 hundred years ago ;)
>
> According to wikipedia, Sir William Jones believed that Sanskrit and
> Latin had a common ancestor, not that one was derived from the other.
>
> I guess it depends on how valid you deem the source. But then I also
> like to believe wikipedia was written by one jolly person, without
> much of a life, but an unending supply of donuts. Its like a safety
> blanket for me.
Trisyllabic laxing. It's a feature of languages from that same root language. Latin, greek, sanskrit, english, german, french etc. Received on Fri Sep 28 2007 - 02:58:44 CEST