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hmmm...offhand, I'd guess that a word ( proto-Hal l, basically) was picked up from the substrate and, modified into Hall- by the Germanic speakers, who spread it throughout what was the Germanic-speaking world. Little nitpick, it isn't even Germanic, it's purely the German (= High & Low German,...

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If time travel were possible without requiring causality loops, how was Hitler never assassinated by a time traveler? One potential explanation is raised here - that the world as it exists actually is the best of all possible worlds... say in every timeline without Hitler we get Uber-Nazis or somet...

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masako wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:14 pm A recent review of some translation exercises reveled some fairly gaping holes in the Kala lexicon.

I get you. The fluency thread today gave me reason to decide on the Tautisca word for "head" after dithering for years on what root to base it.

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Mi finis don cata 6 a Obit Ya, "Ota Skilat ina Faya". Yu me luk im de ya . I finished chapter 6 of the Hobbit, "Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire". You can see it here . Hú! Fa yaic fex hefuluncas parfortai? To's parpulun wargun. wow! INT already six chapter-PL.ACC translate-2...

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Trivial note: a few days ago, I noticed that the word "laboratory" contains the names of both of the major British parties (yes, I know about the missing "u"), and now I can't unsee that. That somehow reminded me of how, when I was a pre-teen and didn't know much English yet, I ...

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linguistcat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:20 pm I'm trying to figure out how cat spirits might speak a variation of Middle Chinese.

How could cat-like spirits speak any language but Miao?

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I like it!
And is that Zomp's old hand-drawn map of Verduria? I always found that it was a thing of beauty.

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Here in France (and I suppose in most other European countries as well), they're used as kind of mid-term popularity contest among various tendancies. With the plot twist that as European elections use proportional representation, parties that do well in the European election don't always do well i...

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Thank you for sharing. This is a valid objection; but the author knocks at an open door when he points out that the *s > h shift did not happen in Continental Celtic - I don't think it has anything to do with Celtic. Well, it being Celtic was the original idea behind it being a substrate word for &...

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though even here, there are cases where an element in some place names correlate with a salient feature of the named sites, such as *hal- in the names of some ancient Central European salt production sites which therefore probably meant 'salt' in whichever language it came from. Actually, no seriou...

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keenir wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:13 pm ehhhh...it did, and it at the same time, preached that, if the master and slave were both members of the faithful, it'd be nice if the master was kind and generous to their slave co-religionist, but they were still staying master and slave.

Well, that's already the start of the weaseling out

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Well, there is the point that Christianity preached equality, and that in said kingdom of God the meek and powerless, as long as they believed, would be favoured above the rich and powerful of this world, and that those rich and powerful had to become poor and humble to be accepted. That was what ma...

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Is this supposed to be a kind of English that developed in the Danelaw area?

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zompist wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:09 pm Then you should appreciate Justin Rye's comment that Star Trek could get past Einstein using dilithium.

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This made my day today.

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Torco wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:58 am do as the vikings did and supplement vitamin D with cod. if you start getting ideas about raiding monasteries, consult your GP again.

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A better question is whether Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, or Finnic paganism could have survived (and all things considered, Baltic paganism survived to a surprisingly late date). I think what happened within the limes was key. The Germans were keen to imitate everything Roman, so adopting some form o...

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As I recall, Zarathustra is very misogynistic. I'm inclined to think that's a huge flaw; Nietzsche basically ignored half (if not more) of human experience. Too put it very loosely, Nietzsche was an early example of an incel, drawing from the fact that the woman he desired didn't want him the concl...

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I get your point! The idea though, would be not to have Christianity disappear entirely, but it coexisting with other religions (some of them deriving from paganism). So you'd have multiple cults/religions occupying diverse niches. I don't know if Christianity could have gotten the "monopolist...

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How about something happening sometime during the reign of Diocletian, or Constantine not converting after all? I think Constantine not converting isn't particularly unlikely -- as far as I know, he was an opportunist; another idea I'm toying with is Diocletian dying before the Persecution. I hope ...

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