June 28, 2007
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Happy Birthday, Mel Brooks
Christianus
Cornelius UhlenbeckOct. 18, 1866 – Aug. 12, 1951
“… born at Voorburg near The Hague in Holland, and
studied philology at the University of Leiden…. Though he would
actually have preferred to graduate in Basque, Uhlenbeck in 1888, when
only 22 years old, took his doctor’s degree in Dutch. It must be
here noted that for this degree the requirements in comparative
philology were very considerable….” –International Journal of American Linguistics, Jan. 1953
From Uhlenbeck’s A Manual of Sanskrit Phonetics (1898):“The Indogermanic family of languages. The great family of languages, in which Sanskrit belongs, is called the Indogermanic, Indoceltic or Aryan…. The word Indogermanic
dates from a time, when it was not yet proved, that the Celtic dialects
also make part of our family of languages, and indicates by the
combined name of the utmost branches, Indian and Germanic, the whole
territory of speech, to which they belong. Now that it is certain, that
Celtic also is a member of our family, it would be accurate to replace
the word Indogermanic by Indoceltic, because not Germanic, but Celtic is the utmost branch in the Occident. The name Indogermanic however is generally adopted and it would be impossible to supplant it by another. By the word Aryan
is generally understood a certain subdivision of the Indogermanic
family, viz. the Indo-Iranian, and therefore it would seem unsuitable
to use this name also for the whole Indogermanic family.”
An unsuitable Santa:
A Santa understudy:
Transcript of
“Miracle on 34th Street”–KRIS: Bye. Merry Christmas!
Well, young lady,
what's your name?
MOTHER: I'm sorry.
She doesn't speak English.
She's Dutch. She just came over.
She's been living
in an orphans home...
in Rotterdam ever since...
We've adopted her.
I told her you wouldn't
be able to speak to her...
but when she saw you
in the parade yesterday...
she said you were
"Sinter Claes"...
and you could talk to her.
I didn't know what to do.
KRIS: Hello. [Speaking Dutch]
[Speaking Dutch]
[Singing in Dutch]
DORIS: Now do you understand?Related material:
Pope Approves Wider
Use of Latin Mass,
(Click on image for details),
and
Seminar für Klassische Philologie
der Universität
Basel–Indogermanistische Bibliothek.
