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Fear of the Unknown
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"(I feel like I should be in a college dorm room with a bong or something: "Language, maaaaaan.")"
Not exactly. What you wrote about the meeting is called analysis and synthesis. It is generally regarded as a sign of maturity.
Smoking a bong on the other hand.....
Not exactly. What you wrote about the meeting is called analysis and synthesis. It is generally regarded as a sign of maturity.
Smoking a bong on the other hand.....
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Linguistics 101 dude...ahem yes they all came from proto Indo Aryan ... ever wonder why blonder Germanic "Aryan" sounds like Persian "Iran" ?
cuo can cunning ... I woot that they all met on the road of the chariots down there in the steppes of the Ukraine & lower Hungary area and these language families developed BEFORE the tribes speaking them moved from there to Celticland Iberoland Scandieland Germanland Italyland Greekland etc.
This is why saying globalization is new is dumb.
Check out the Horse, the Wheel and the Chariot ...
cuo can cunning ... I woot that they all met on the road of the chariots down there in the steppes of the Ukraine & lower Hungary area and these language families developed BEFORE the tribes speaking them moved from there to Celticland Iberoland Scandieland Germanland Italyland Greekland etc.
This is why saying globalization is new is dumb.
Check out the Horse, the Wheel and the Chariot ...
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1. In the U.S. we call it "Indo-European"; the Nazis liked the terms Indo-Germanic and Indo-Aryan, so we avoid those now.
2. In normalized Anglo-Saxon texts (linguists generally prefer the term "Anglo-Saxon" over "Old English," but that's not a big deal), it's usually spelled "uncūþ."
3. The sense of "cunnan" is not merely "to know" but has connotations of "to know how" and "to be able." Our words "can" and "could" come from this same word. So "uncūþ" means "unknown" or "unfamiliar" but also has connotations such as "unable," "inept," etc. These connotations exist in the other languages' words as well.
5. The word "know" and the word "cunnan" are closely related; if we respell the roots as "kno-" and "kun-" you can see that more clearly.
4. The Latin is formed from in+gno- (= un+know). The Greek from an+gno- (= un+know).
2. In normalized Anglo-Saxon texts (linguists generally prefer the term "Anglo-Saxon" over "Old English," but that's not a big deal), it's usually spelled "uncūþ."
3. The sense of "cunnan" is not merely "to know" but has connotations of "to know how" and "to be able." Our words "can" and "could" come from this same word. So "uncūþ" means "unknown" or "unfamiliar" but also has connotations such as "unable," "inept," etc. These connotations exist in the other languages' words as well.
5. The word "know" and the word "cunnan" are closely related; if we respell the roots as "kno-" and "kun-" you can see that more clearly.
4. The Latin is formed from in+gno- (= un+know). The Greek from an+gno- (= un+know).
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