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 Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:27 am
Apparently people have been trying to rebuild the original Indo-European language...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto_Indo-European_language
I found that while I was looking up the subjunctive mood just now. I thought people here might be interested.
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:58 pm
DavidGemmell Apparently people have been trying to rebuild the original Indo-European language... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto_Indo-European_language I found that while I was looking up the subjunctive mood just now. I thought people here might be interested. *reads* I don't believe in an original Indo-European language. I speak 3 of them (English, Russian, French) and all 3 of those are so different that I don't see how any one language can evolve into so many different languages, even after 4K years.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:05 am
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:12 am
Proudly_Jewish http://www.cafepress.com/goodjewishgirl.21775278 eek heart xD Someone made a shirt about you!
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:51 am
Proudly_Jewish DavidGemmell Apparently people have been trying to rebuild the original Indo-European language... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto_Indo-European_language I found that while I was looking up the subjunctive mood just now. I thought people here might be interested. *reads* I don't believe in an original Indo-European language. I speak 3 of them (English, Russian, French) and all 3 of those are so different that I don't see how any one language can evolve into so many different languages, even after 4K years. I was surprised the first time I heard about the concept, actually. Germanic languages seem so different to, say, Romance languages that it's hard to imagine them coming from the same root.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:16 am
DavidGemmell Proudly_Jewish DavidGemmell Apparently people have been trying to rebuild the original Indo-European language... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto_Indo-European_language I found that while I was looking up the subjunctive mood just now. I thought people here might be interested. *reads* I don't believe in an original Indo-European language. I speak 3 of them (English, Russian, French) and all 3 of those are so different that I don't see how any one language can evolve into so many different languages, even after 4K years. I was surprised the first time I heard about the concept, actually. Germanic languages seem so different to, say, Romance languages that it's hard to imagine them coming from the same root.
Even languages that are genetically closely related i.e. Slavic Langs have less in common with each other than they do with certain Romance languages. For example, Romanian shares silimilarities with Bulgarian, and both share similarities with Greek and Turkish, and yet are fairly unrelated.
And just look at how much English has evolved in just two millennia.
Then again, I am a linguistics student, so I'm supposed to know this stuff.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:49 am
Moonwolf Sedai Then again, I am a linguistics student, so I'm supposed to know this stuff. Yeah, I guess so. sweatdrop I don't know much about non-IE languages, so I can't really spot similarities like those.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:54 am
Actually, I see a lot of similarities between the Indo-European language families. xD
I guess I'm weird.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:58 am
Eccentric Iconoclast Actually, I see a lot of similarities between the Indo-European language families. xD I guess I'm weird. I do too, but not enough to make me think that at one point they were all part of the same language. Especially not as recently as 4K years ago.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:38 pm
Proudly_Jewish Eccentric Iconoclast Actually, I see a lot of similarities between the Indo-European language families. xD I guess I'm weird. I do too, but not enough to make me think that at one point they were all part of the same language. Especially not as recently as 4K years ago. I highly doubt that it was only four thousand years. I'd guess at LEAST six.
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:27 am
Moonwolf Sedai Then again, I am a linguistics student, so I'm supposed to know this stuff. Lucky! I want to go into linguistics! Is it fun?
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:47 pm
Damn it's been hot lately eek
It was 34C today >.<
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:54 pm
Proudly_Jewish Damn it's been hot lately eek It was 34C today >.< It seems like everywhere it's been hotter than normal confused Global warming? ( gonk crying eek gonk )
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:15 am
If you can find a spot with no wind and sun, its about 25C where I am... If I were outside, that is...
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:36 am
BuxumBoja Proudly_Jewish Damn it's been hot lately eek It was 34C today >.< It seems like everywhere it's been hotter than normal confused Global warming? ( gonk crying eek gonk ) It was 37C a couple of days ago, where I am. AND OUR AIR CONDITIONING WASN'T WORKING. DDDx
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