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by Atrulfal
Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:49 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
Replies: 12
Views: 3440

Re: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)

Matrix wrote:He's asking for you to cite your claim, in a very sarcastic way.
If so, then why did he have to be so rude with me for absolutely no reason? Besides, I left the reference at my original post.
by Atrulfal
Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:33 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
Replies: 12
Views: 3440

Re: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)

The SPACE IS TIME metaphor is so common that it would be a bit weird not to have it. What's perhaps more interesting is that humans don't all agree on what direction time flows, so don't just copy the English idea that time is ahead of us. There was a South Native American tribe, if I remember corr...
by Atrulfal
Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:07 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)
Replies: 12
Views: 3440

Re: Certain aspects of grammar (big discussion!)

The SPACE IS TIME metaphor is so common that it would be a bit weird not to have it. What's perhaps more interesting is that humans don't all agree on what direction time flows, so don't just copy the English idea that time is ahead of us. There was a South Native American tribe, if I remember corr...
by Atrulfal
Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:41 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Replies: 2225
Views: 478347

Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread

I know that the personal pronouns in PIE have an enclitic form, but what specifically are their, let's say, "usage" ?