Quote Originally Posted by Zhenya
All indo european languages are just variations of the same theme!
Yes, that is correct, Zhenya. A prime example would be the word Chinitial. This word is a conglomeration of many a foreign tongue, and refers predominantly to a European of Chinese ethnicity. Originally, Europeans had no single word for such a person, so the cumbersome reference given was man initially from China. It was later compacted into the word Chinaman-itial, comprising of the name of the country of China, and the Latin word for 'origin', initial. It was to be compacted even further, into the word we're today all so familiar with, Chinitial.

*A prominent linguist friend of mine, a descendant of the Elvish author J.R Tolkien, assures me that this is an indesputable proven fact, and not merely theory.

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