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[Simon Paynton]

Jake,

I just checked and English and Arabic don’t belong to the same family, so they are put together very differently.  English and Hindi are in the same family.

The root system sounds a lot like Sanskrit.  Many of the Sanskrit roots exist in English, like the sc- sound for cutting, e.g., scar, scythe, scissors; and str- for long thin things like streams, strips, and straight strands. * don’t quote me on this, half-remembered.

[Simon Paynton]

Well, I seem to have got that all wrong.  Sc- words are from the latin caedere, meaning cut, str- words are from the Pali Indo-European root

strenk – “tight, narrow; pull tight, twist” (see string (n.))

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I have never heard anyone else compare English and Sanskrit but from what I know, you are correct. Many Urdu\Gaelic\Hindi words also have the same Proto-Indo-European roots.

Take the word for the number ‘2’.

In Hindi and Urdu (I speak some Hindi as I have in-laws from India) 2 is spelled as ‘do’ and is pronounced ‘doe’.  (Hindustani)

In Gaelic (I speak it as a second language – a bit rusty though) 2 is spelled as ‘dó’ and is pronounced ‘doe’.  In Scottish Gaelic it is ‘dà’

In Latin\Italian\Spanish it is duo\due\dos

English two is from the exact same ancestor, but sound changes made the initial d shift to t. That’s why we don’t pronounce it as ‘doe’ in English anymore….thanks to Grimm’s Law.

[Unseen]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen,

Hamas doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians in its death count. And women and children are among suicide bombers too.

And note the spike in Antisemitic incidents in one year’s time after October 7, 2023. The next year hasn’t arrived yet either so there is room for more.

Crimes against blacks, women, and gays are far more common. If there’s an uptick in crimes against Jews, a lot of it has to do with their war crimes against Palestinian civilians. And that’s not to justify Hamas in any way.

Also, there are no reports of Mossad agents attacking Jews in the U.S.

Puzzled. What would motivate Mossad to go after American Jews?

And Trans people are just as likely to be attacked by Practitioners of The Religion of Peace and Compassion™.

If there’s been an uptick in Muslim attacks on trannies, prove it.

[TheEncogitationer]

Unseen:

Read the article from Time.

In September 2024, FBI data showed that anti-Jewish hate crimes had increased by 63% since 2023. Despite Jewish Americans making up just 2% of the U.S. population, reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes made up 15% of all reported hate crimes in 2023 and 68% of all reported religion-based hate crimes.

And not one word from Wokesters about “disparate impact”, even though this form of “disparate impact” is explicitly intentional.

Now, has any other grouping had a 68 percent increase in hate crimes? Or, for that matter, has any undifferentiated jurisdiction of Americans had an increase in all crime of this percentage? This I would have to see.

Puzzled. What would motivate Mossad to go after American Jews?

You said Jews in the U.S. were attacked because of Israel. Mossad is how Israel would do it.

By the way, who would give extenuating circumstances as a reason for a crime, much less a crime motivated by hate?

If there’s been an uptick in Muslim attacks on trannies, prove it.

I never claimed there was an uptick of Muslim vs. Trans violence, but the record of Islam against cis-gendered women combined with the growth of Islam in the U.S. would make nothing like this surprising.

Quit while you’re behind.

[Simon Paynton]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

English two is from the exact same ancestor,

We have two, twin, twine, between, etc.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake, Simon, and Reg:

The language portion of that video was interesting too.

Another thing I’ve always wondered is how people close enough to interact developed families of languages so different that they use different alphabets and are written in different directions?

[Simon Paynton]

Enco, wasn’t it Noam Chomsky who said that the human brain is biologically primed to learn languages?  Any functioning human language.

I’m sure there is a story to why the various language families write left to right or right to left.  I believe the Russian Cyrillic alphabet was made as a Russian version of the Greek alphabet, by St Cyril (apparently).  Japanese uses three alphabets plus it borrows Chinese characters.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

FBI: Anti-Jewish hate crimes comprised nearly 70% of all religion-based hate crimes in 2024

[jakelafort]

It is so F’d up. RELIGION based? aaaahm does that mean Jewish atheists who get their chops busted because they are being blamed for the lefty lies about Israel won’t be considered in the hate crime stats?

I have read and heard how Jew hatred is a litmus test for societal stability and it certainly meets the knee jerk test.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

The Time article I cited said the same thing, but it evidently needs repetition, so no fault here.

Mind you, while I still think that crime is crime, regardless of the motive, as long as the hate enhancement exists, everyone should be covered by it.

[TheEncogitationer]

Simon,

Genetics would certainly explain the capacity for language. Whether there are innate structures in the brain for how a language forms is something different.

Another great mystery is the Basque language. It’s still a guess where it came from because it bears no resemblance to Spanish or French, yet Basque country is in between Spain and France.

[jakelafort]

That Basque region in Spain is also the one area that resisted the onslaught of the Muslims in the 8th century. I believe Basques are also the people who bring us jai alia. If ya ain’t seen it an entertaining gambling sport that requires great reflexes and hand/eye coordination. Chula.

Imagine the Almohades and Almoravides slaughtering, raping their way through Spain from Gibralter all of the way to the border of France in about 20 years. I am sure they were freeing Palestine and anticipating the intifada. Not long until the reconquista would pair one set of mindfucked religionuts against another set of mindfucked religionuts. May the best nut win! Not until 1492 would the Muslims and Jews get the boot. In between there was lots of good Christian compassion during the nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I am so delighted the lefties are doing their part to perpetuate hard core kickass religion.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake and Simon,

It turns out that although Basque language is unique, it may not be as totally mysterious as I had previously supposed. It is actually a genetic isolate language that has been spoken in the same region for longer than surrounding Indo-European languages. It’s ancestor is thought to be Aquatinian. Some linguists think it is related to Iberian and Caucasius region languages. Many Basques also speak French and Spanish as their primary language

Language Isolate–Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_isolate

The Basque language along with Basque independence was suppressed by both the French Revolution and and Francisco Franco’s Fascist regime, so those hobbled the use of the language for a while. Present State schooling in France and Spain also discourage bilingualism.

Interestingly, only just above half of Basques are believers in a God and the rest are Agnostic or Atheist. And many scientists think the Basques are kin to Cro-Magnon Man.

Basques–Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basques

Amazing the destinations free range study can take you!

[Simon Paynton]

That’s super-interesting, Enco.  That’s why I love the history of languages, they’re a way into the ancient past movements of people.

According to the internet, Aquatinian was the tribal language of the Aquatini tribe or clan or whatever, in the Pyrenees.  It’s a Paleohispanic and Vasconic language.  Around where I live, we had the Iceni tribe.  I guess these names have been Romanised, and we probably only know about them through the Romans.

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