From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Fri Jul 16 1999 - 06:36:16 MDT
It appears as if Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> wrote:
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|> |English: pride, envy, wrath, sloth, lust, greed, and gluttony.
|> |Swedish: högmod, avund, vrede, lättja, vällust, girighet och frosseri.
|> Finnish: ylpeys, kateus, viha, velttous, himo, ahneus ja mässäily.
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|Im surprised there isnt more similarity between Swedish and Finnish.
|Are they not of common origin, like English and German? spike
English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Hindi,
etc., are mere dialects of the Indoeuropean language. Finnish, Estonian
and a number of other more obscure languages in Siberia are a completely
different group altogether.
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