Forum Overview :: Earthbound :: Re: Well, he did.

[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Noi Dau Don"][quote name="laudablepuss"]But set that aside, what I said above is true. <b>So, don't post .gifs of the Joker, tell me what your problem is.</b> (My Central Asian history prof was French, and liked to use the word "milieu" a lot. The next semester, my prof was Uzbek. I think. I forget now.)[/quote] Did you just scold me, you ass? I'm giving you this one on credit, but next time just assume I wouldn't mock you pointlessly like so much QB and fucking google it yourself. Saying Iranian is synonymous with Indo-European is <i>identical</i> to saying that Nordic person is synonymous with Indo-European. "Iranian" is a distinct type that can't even be considered - genetically, politically, culturally - identical to Arabs, much less the entire body of Indo-Europeans. AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT when you say "Indo-European" are you referring to language groups or ethnic groups? Because usually Indo-European is used to refer to language groups, and the roughly analogous ethnic term is Caucasian or Caucasoid. [/quote] I'm well aware of this, and that's why he went out of his way to use a lower-case "i". In the sense he used it, Nordics are iranians. It's weird, I know. I only threw it in there to see if anyone else had heard of this: clearly nobody has. Perhaps a better way of expressing it (using your preferred terminology) is iranian = caucasoid. Language groups are a good approximation of ethnic groups, usually. I know French and English are spoken far beyond their ethnic groups, for example, but they're exceptions. It's a safe bet that throughout history, people who spoke a language were also members of that culture and ethnicity.[/quote]