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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 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.
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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.
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.
Did you see the research tracing mythology around the world, including from Europe all the way to the North Americans?
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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.
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Now Finno-Ugric is fascinating for the current spread of where it's spoken. And I'm sure you know, folding it all back together, that Tolkien was a student of Finnish and it influenced some of his fantasy languages. When I was reading about Dyatlov Pass a few weeks ago I was surprised to see it was spoken by the native Mansi out there.
Did you see the research tracing mythology around the world, including from Europe all the way to the North Americans?
Did you see the research tracing mythology around the world, including from Europe all the way to the North Americans?
Is that a genre you read a lot of?
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There is a 4000 foot tall hill behind the house. I guess technically we live on the upslope to the hill. There is a road to the top which is closed to cars and people walk and bike on it. It has long stretches of 10% and gains 2500 feet in about 7 miles. It's mostly paved until the top then it's all dirt either way. Today I rode down a different canyon which is a fun, twisty dirt road and at the bottom there is some technical singletrack to get out to the street and then a few miles back home.
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"A lot" is a funny term. I haven't gone past The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in the Legendarium, but I do think of them a great deal. I read A Song of Ice and Fire fully (such as it is now, anyway), twice. Other than that though, no such fantasy - lots of Middle Eastern history a decade ago, the Bourne series a few times, most of the pulpy Wingman series, and now I'm tackling It (since I constantly mock the current notion that clowns are scary). And some other randomness - Red Eagles about the research on captured Soviet fighter planes during the Cold War, the first few Clan of the Cave Bear books, some other stuff.
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