[Buddha-l] Jayarava's rave on the IE lingos

[Jayarava]

--- On Sat, 30/5/09, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately, nbl---the linguistic group that is most warlike these 
> days is the Semitic group (Hebrew and Arabic), indicating
> better than ever that shared linguistic histories aren't up
> to the peace role.

I think this has to be a moot point, and is not a comparison I'd be interested in pursuing, or a conclusion I want to be associated with. I don't think it flows from my blog post in any way, and I would like to distance myself from the view that speakers of semitic languages are more warlike than speakers of other language groups. I don't imagine "warlikeness" has anything at all to do with language groups, nor with race, or creed. How would one even define "warlike"? 

Douglas Adams said this re the babelfish: "by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, [the babelfish] has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

Jayarava