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 […]

it’s also yummy

  • 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!