Making the Argument for Sanskrit

[Tenzin Bob Thurman]

Friedrich Nietszche also studied Sanskrit.
Bob T


George Thompson wrote:
> Sir William Jones.  He was in touch with Ben Franklin & indirectly 
> with Th. Jefferson, both of whom collected word-lists from various 
> languages, including Sanskrit lists.
>
> See this website posted by Mark Liberman at Univ. of Pennsylvania:
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> http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/coll002/Liberman5.ppt
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> George Thompson
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> Toke Lindegaard Knudsen wrote:
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>> On Thursday, January 11, 2007, at 02:10PM, "Dominik Wujastyk" 
>> <ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK> wrote:
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>>> Further to David's point below, it could be useful to compile a list 
>>> of particularly famous people who had Sanskri, sometimes 
>>> unexpectedly, in their backgrounds.  Using such a list would be 
>>> purely a rhetorical device, but could still be effective in winning 
>>> some hearts and minds.
>>>
>>> examples off the top of my head:
>>>
>>> Hermann Grassmann (1809-1877), famous mathematician.
>>> Leonard Bloomfield (1887--1949), structural linguist, behaviourist,
>>>  scholar of American Indian languages, and founder of the Linguistic
>>>  Society of America.
>>> Ferdinand de Saussure (1857--1913), linguist, founder of structuralism.
>>>   
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>> Also:
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>> T. S. Eliot (1888?1965), poet, dramatist, and literary critic.
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>> Toke
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