The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    You’re describing every language for the overwhelming majority of the last 150,000+ years. English is not unique in that.

    Name a single language that didn’t have an aristocracy that knew how to read and write and learned formalized Grammer for the majority of that languages history.

    I didn’t read anything else you didn’t understand after that first bit tho.

    I can help a little, but I’m not teaching an etymology class over here.

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Name a single language that didn’t have an aristocracy that knew how to read and write and learned formalized Grammer [sic] for the majority of that langauges [sic] history.

      You do realize more than half of the world’s ~7,000 languages still have no writing system, right?

    • Hegar@kbin.social
      15·
      1 year ago

      Name a single language that didn’t have an aristocracy that knew how to read and write and learned formalized Grammer for the majority of that languages history.

      😂 I’m going to be generous and assume you’re just trolling now and don’t seriously believe this.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Cool…

        I’m going to continue to not use emojis and take a quick step to make sure I never try to help you understand something again.

        Everyone wins!