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

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      11 months ago

      Name a single language that didn’t have an aristocracy that knew how to read and write and learned formalized Grammer [sic] for the majority of that langauges [sic] history.

      You do realize more than half of the world’s ~7,000 languages still have no writing system, right?

    • Hegar@kbin.social
      172·
      11 months 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.