Originally Posted by
Bah Humbug
I'm the one who spent his last birthday investigating whether there was a relation between the proto-Indo-European word for "dog" and the Chinese one. That was because I had been digging through PIE word roots and noticed the similarity, and wound up reading a paper about the etymology of "dog" and the evolved nature of dog-related origin myths between West and East. That was how I got freaky on my birthday while AG was overseas for work (seems like an age ago, but was really nine months exactly). But I'm sure y'all are nerdy too.
I mean, I didn’t do it on my birthday, but I did go down a rabbit hole once looking at Finno-Ugric and it’s relation to other languages. It started with some research into Magyar and then escalated from there.
I do find the development of language and the theories around who the PIE peoples were and where the language came from to be fascinating, more so how you can trace the migration of people by general language classifications.