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That's the default, yes, but it has generalized well beyond that by now.

Does it make it more or less silly that it used to be Pesth?

Poles, presumably. And it refers to this: There are three main genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. Masculine nouns are also divided into animate and inanimate (this distinction being relevant in the singular), and personal and non-personal (this distinction being relevant in the plural). All pe...

Hmm... the Hittite dative is a merger of PIE dative and locative, the Hittite ablative -az(a) is ultimately from PIE *-od or *-ad (see thematic ablative *-ōd), so that just leaves allative -a and instrumental -it (and 'ergative' -anza ) as unique Hittite case markers, and I seem to recall both have...

Eventually, isn't the distinction between homophones and two ideas sharing the same root or form down to speaker perception? Two sides of the same coin unless the speakers clearly demarcate between the two (which I rather suspect they do, in this case).

In-world, those aren't Russian loans. They're native Verdurian words. Also I think Zompist once said something once about wanting the Elenicoi to leave Earth before the Council of Nicaea's changes percolated out into Christendom, so that rules out any Slavs at all.

"Eeee ee ee" , Manx for "she will eat it". ...y'know, that was in the first post of this thread. I searched for it and didn't come up with anything relevant... wonder why. In 12 years here I've had the search function produce useful results...maybe 20 times. I've tried to use the search function hu...

Yes. Videos of pictures of handwritten pages.

What Ossetian change are we talking about here though? The only vaguely similar change in Ossetian I can think of is ku > kʷɨ in Iron Ossetian, together with a broader u > ɨ change. To be honest, I was taking it as a given that Rusanov had a clue what he was talking about (bad move), because I didn...

Early PIE also includes some of my own insights, such as noticing that Anatolian shares only four or five cases (nominative, vocative, genitive, dative, accusative; the others aren't actually cognate) with other IE languages Really now? Interesting. Got anything linkable on that? and shows no trace...

The framework of it is based on accepted work in the field, with much of the details his own, I believe. It doesn't explain how Anatolian got where it is imo (the spread via the Mouth of the Danube and Thrace across the Dardanelles possibility, as I currently understand it, doesn't quite work for me...

What does Tedur think of Dravian cops?

No, videos of pages of written or typed fanfiction, with pages being changed at intervals.

Clearly an Eeeish loan.

That is one of the classic changes of Northwest Caucasian (possibly Northeast as well, but I don't know that group as well), which is probably the origin of the Ossetian change.

on tape

Ok then. Maybe he was denied an extradimensional entry visa.

Sounds like it is/was Terran-operated then?

Well there's the embassy in Linköping yeah, I'm half-remembering the ambassador being terran tho, and the backup site which copied Geocities before it was taken offline (requiescat in pace, *sniff*) doesn't seem to have all the pages saved, so I can't confirm or deny that :s

ObsequiousNewt wrote:

Nessari wrote:

ObsequiousNewt wrote:One does not simply... conclude a thread.

What if we used a catapult?

That would be a catastrophe.

Oh?

ObsequiousNewt wrote:One does not simply... conclude a thread.

What if we used a catapult?

Multiple series of stops have been known to link together, on a molecular level, as chains. When baked, as in Germanic languages, a curious process known as "chain shifting" occurs. So you're saying Hansel and Gretel is a shared racial memory? Naw, I was trying and failing to mke a joke about polym...

ObsequiousNewt wrote:Multiple series of stops have been known to link together, on a molecular level, as chains. When baked, as in Germanic languages, a curious process known as "chain shifting" occurs.

So you're saying Hansel and Gretel is a shared racial memory?

The only announced interactions have been a boatload of 4th Century AD Greeks and an Englishman (separate incidents). So...less likely.

I met a South African woman once whose accent was close to RP, but there was something there that was "not English". At first I thought she was a New Zealander. The trick to recognizing a South African accent is that while Australian chucks all of the vowels into a stew and mixes them around, and K...