From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User)
Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars
Date: 29 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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On 29 Jan 1999 00:54:59 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>Cluster User wrote:
>
>> >We should not worry too much. At the end, even the Scythians were thought to
>> >be Turkic in the 19-th century, so - be patient and probably in the due time
>> >the scholars will start to study the old Bulgars' question more seriously and
>> >without the constant repetition of the Turkic mantra.
>> 
>> what I object to is  calling the prevailing view a "mantra". it is not
>> made up of whole cloth.
>
>That would be a mantle.

nice! the pun was unintended!

>-- 
>Peter T. Daniels					grammatim@worldnet.att.net