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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.

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.

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.

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

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 (…[Read more]

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?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
English two is from the exact same ancestor,

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

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…

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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…[Read more]

I have never heard anyone else compare English and Sanskrit but from what I know, you are correct. Many UrduGaelicHindi 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 (…[Read more]

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.))

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 l…[Read more]

Simon,

The historian in the vid refers to Arabic language. I had no idea of the following: In Arabic, most words are built upon a triconsonantal root, meaning they are derived from a base of three consonants. These roots represent core meanings or concepts, and other words are formed by adding vowels and other consonants to the root. For example,…[Read more]

Jake – ruby, rust, russet.  In Europe we’re surrounded by a bunch of related languages, all with the same roots.

Apparently though Finnish is a strange outlier that doesn’t bear any relation to the other European languages.  According to Wikipedia it’s Uralic rather than Indo-European in its family.  I went to Norway for 10 days once, and they se…[Read more]

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.

Also, there are no reports of Mossad agents…[Read more]

Simon,

yes, redolent, rojo, rubiginous…

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Is this lack of evidence about danger to Jews in America? You’ll want to tell that to the Jews in Boulder, CO, the Israelis in Washington, D.C, and PA Governor Josh Shapiro.

The most conservative estimate of dead Palestinians is that of the Israeli government: 17.000 (give or take). At the other end, the Gaza Ministry o…[Read more]

Jake – yes, Rus, rose, rouge, red, etc.

Simon,

My memory which obviously may be wrong is that Russia is named for a people known as the Rus. Those people i think came from Finland.

jakelafort wrote:
Vikings went all the way into Russia

Apparently Russia is named after the red hair of the vikings.