Check this website out and his/her theory on where Greeks came from!
http://www.greecetra...u/olympicgames/
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Greeks came from Yunnan and Korea?
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Liang Jieming
, May 13 2005 06:13 AM
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 06:13 AM
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 09:39 AM
Oh...
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 11:19 AM
He probably doesn't know a linguistic term, 'false cognates'.
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 12:51 PM
What does this mean?He probably doesn't know a linguistic term, 'false cognates'.
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 06:51 PM
A false cognate is a word from another language that sounds like a word from your own language but has a completely different meaning. Example: both Chinese and English have a word ma, but in English it means mother, while in Chinese it means horse.
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 07:57 PM
Check this website out and his/her theory on where Greeks came from!
http://www.greecetra...u/olympicgames/
I believe that the term "yunnan" in the greek context is the corruption
of the word "ionia" and thus "ionian" (from the greek tribe of ionians).
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 09:38 PM
Isn't it also mother in Mandarin?A false cognate is a word from another language that sounds like a word from your own language but has a completely different meaning. Example: both Chinese and English have a word ma, but in English it means mother, while in Chinese it means horse.
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 10:31 PM
Er, yes.Isn't it also mother in Mandarin?
Bad example on my part. I had thought only mama meant mother, but in fact the single ma also means mother. You're right.A better example of a false cognate might be the English fang meaning a long, sharp tooth, and the Chinese fang meaning put.
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Posted 19 May 2005 - 06:30 PM
ridiculous indeed. If the Greeks were from the East, especially that far East, how could they have had no idea of story of this place? 
Greeks did not know of what is now 'East Asia', they thought that Asia extended as far as the Asia minor at the time.
absolute rubbish
, that's what I say to that theory.
Greeks did not know of what is now 'East Asia', they thought that Asia extended as far as the Asia minor at the time.
absolute rubbish
, that's what I say to that theory.
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Posted 20 May 2005 - 02:24 AM
I don't believe that site.. at all, how could Greeks have travelled sofar from Yunan and Korea?
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Posted 20 May 2005 - 04:04 AM
Crackpot theories...oh well, they have to make a living somehow.
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Posted 20 May 2005 - 05:47 AM
Some theorists theorize (what else) that "wang" (Chinese for king) may be related to the "wanax" (Greek for king).
Another I have heard is that "ma" (horse) may be related to "mare" (female horse).
Another I have heard is that "ma" (horse) may be related to "mare" (female horse).
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Posted 20 May 2005 - 05:50 AM
Hehehehe, all worth a few chuckles... but only just barely.
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Posted 20 May 2005 - 06:07 AM
Right, and pniw- in Klamath and pneu- in Greek are related (both mean breath).
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Posted 26 May 2005 - 08:30 PM
well, maybe the author did not really know the meaning of Chinese words. Some of the definitions that were explained were not exact. Maybe most of us had forgot how we translate Athens and Olympic...
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