GandalftheBlack

@GandalftheBlack@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tuff enuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And rocks are toys, so science is toys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think Bold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Billionaires? Wolves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lox of Luck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I found that article in my research. The 8000 year thing is just referring to the dating of when PIE was spoken (which is debated) and isn’t unique to the word *laks. There are lots of words which can be confidently reconstructed in PIE with consistent meanings, including mother, father, brother, sister, wine, eye, ewe, head, foot, to bear, to eat, to sit, to stand etc. Lax is just particularly interesting because of its stable form and geographic distribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lox of Luck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not if we’re talking about recorded words. Lax and its cognates are attested in branches of Proto Indo European which aren’t written until the first millennium CE at the earliest. The oldest attestation of a cognate of lax (lax is the native English firm if the word, lox is borrowed from Yiddish which in turn borrowed from German Lachs) would be from Tocharian, in which laks meant fish. There are so many words which are attested thousands of years earlier with consistent meaning over time across more branches of the Indo European tree like words denoting family relations, food and drink and other basic vocabulary. (Of course that’s not to say there’s no semantic shift in individual branches, like Ancient Greek φρατηρ meaning ‘brother’ in the sense of a fellow member of a community).

  The reason why linguists were interested in lax was because of its consistent form over time and across branches of Indo European and the role it played in the question of the Indo-European homeland - the proposed PIE reconstruction *laks- is pretty much identical to Modern English lax and other cognates, although earlier forms of the word such as Old English leax (ea being pronounced like General American English a in cat followed by the first vowel in father) show that the pronunciation isn’t entirely unchanged.

  But thanks for your comment, it prompted some research to make my morning more interesting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Trippy" Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead, rely on the comments

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biological Women⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fog of woman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moto G 7 power from 2019. Since it’s quite old there are limited options for alternative OSs, so I’m using e/OS. It has its issues but it runs perfectly well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way, the demise of the dinosaurs is kind of like the fall of Rome (the 5th century one), in that the conditions created by the impact wiped out many of the dinosaurs, but birds survived and are only not considered (by some) to be dinosaurs because of our categorisation, in the same way that the fall of Rome which was completed by Germanic invaders left the Eastern Roman Empire to survive long after that, and despite denial from some, has direct descendance from the Roman Empire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there anything for pigeons? I desperately need remote control pigeon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I present my girlfriend's daughter.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s gore. Gore of my comfort organ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐲 mg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure 250mya is before dinosaurs. According to the dates given by Wikipedia, Stegosaurus is 145-155 myo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Height 📏⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The world could do with fewer kings and more jesters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you’re gonna steal chocolate, at least steal nice chocolate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nomenclature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bouba and blouba

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon disrespects their elders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some did, like my grandad. He had a DSi XL with a fancy stylus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Deep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scotland has entered the chat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, the Shire specifically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not from the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of us, apparently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the public demands ANSWERS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sebastiàn liked his own message

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought this was about the grass until I actually looked at the dinosaurs in the picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inbred cat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always the people with all the dough doing whatever they want. It’s a kneedless display of flour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science wins again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, placebo and nocebo are future tense “I will please” “I will harm”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana scale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Computer, enhance!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a can of beans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things can be disgusting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a can of beans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the commercially available baked beans (not baked) are in a horrible sweet tomato sauce. I haven’t eaten any in a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diced Giant Steak⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soup, the great equaliser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latin names suck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t really true though. Although many IE langauges don’t use a descendant of *h₂r̥ktos, plenty of languages do, e.g. French ours, Albanian ari, Greek άρκτος, Welsh arth etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL Scotland and Wales don’t exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hapax blepomenon