Cornelius Uhlenbeck
Oct. 18, 1866 – Aug. 12, 1951
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.”
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?
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