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Gnomic aspect. “Generally as self-reflected as any reflexive pronoun.” | Linguistics and philology | VDMA
How does an insurance ad have infinitely more accurate Mycenaean armor than a $250M Christopher Nolan film
Pennsylvania Dutch and Yiddish have shared oddly similar fates: both originally spoken by large minority groups, almost wiped out in the same period (WW2), now relegated to insular religious communities but recovering due to very high birth rates
Endlessly funny that the Byzantines never figured out a succession system and just had constant Late Antique civil wars for a thousand years
Lots of you people try to “talk like Sephiroth” but none are courageous enough to use “thou”, -eth, etc. COWARDS! COWARDS THE LOT OF YOU!
The Knights Who Say ‘Ni’ was an esoteric gag about the recent “du-reformen”, the ’60s abolishment of grammatical politeness in Swedish. “Ni”, being a term of address for people lower than you, is inappropriate & derogatory for King Arthur & his knights. Hence the flinching.
Montana State Prison
just remembered that americans don’t have random old castles in the countryside that they can go and visit
Why do I even log on to this site man
in uni I wrote my dissertation on how Indo-European as a linguistic group only exists bc eugenicist Anglos & Germans couldn’t square the complexity of Sanskrit & Indian civilisation with it being a continent of Subhuman Browns. linguistic macrotaxonomy is a joke
Old French S was usually retained in loans to English, even where later lost in French. However, S was lost before N, L, M: “dine”, “male”, “paynim”. And before N and L, S could also change to D, eg “meddle” from “mesler”. The latter change was apparently regular in Anglo-Norman.
Attested pronunciations of the Middle English letter yogh ȝ (originally a G): [g] ȝhat (gate) [j] ȝong (young) [w] boȝe (bow) [ç] niȝt (night) [x] wrouȝte (wrought) [ʃ] ȝho (she)
Anglisher who switches out “OK” for “OR” because it’s a bad spelling of “all correct” and “correct” is a French word
There are Hungarians signing their id cards/drivers license in rovásírás btw (sadly they are more likely to be on the "weird" side but I think it kinda looks cool)
Ideje lesz megtanulni a rovásírást
Purple porphyry, the most precious Roman marble, came from one mine in Egypt, lost in the Arab invasions. Medieval and Renaissance porphyry was entirely recycled from ruins. Napoleon searched for it in Egypt in vain; his tomb is red quartzite. The English rediscovered it in 1823.
Ophir, Biblical land famous for gold and “algum” trees (sandalwood?), both used for the construction of the Temple. Probably in the far east, either south India or maybe Indonesia. Mt Ledang in Malaysia was also termed Mt Ophir, though when it received the name is unclear.
Austrian explorer Dr. Von Hauch reports that in darkest Peru, he has discovered Ophir, an Ancient Hebrew city of gold populated by hundreds of Peruvians who look like Jews, many named “Solomon.”
“Île-de-France”, the region around Paris, literally means “island of France”. There are many unsatisfying etymologies: the Île de la Cité, or rivers surrounding the region, or as an island of royal power in a feudal sea, or a corruption of Frankish *Liddle Franke “little Frankia”
