How social media can change the world
Human society has always worked on a very simple principle People do things and they continue to do them until someone tells them to stop. They either acquiesce or they fight (and sometimes win). Everyone has different ideas on how things should work, and sometimes people have even started wars over it. Sometimes wars are […]
Old English Electricity
By Timothy Patrick Snyder Old English is a fantastic language. There is a large selection of literature, with poetry and prose, we have an Old English lexicon that includes several thousand words (although spelling and dialectal variants also take up a decent amount of entries). There is definitely enough in the lexicon to speak it […]
Language fossils
Something that I think all language enthusiasts encounter very early on is just how many languages there are in the world. But spend more time in the language world, and you will discover that there are even more languages beyond those currently being spoken. Latin, Ancient Greek, Avestan, Old Norse, Old English, Akkadian, the list […]
How are “boon”, “ban”, “prophet” and “fame” related?
“boon” meaning “blessing, benefit” come from Old Norse “bón” where it meant “prayer” or “petition”. This word ultimately comes Proto Indo European *bʰeh₂- where it meant “to say”. “ban” comes from Proto Germanic *bannaną where it meant “curse” or “forbid” and it took came from Proto Indo European *bʰeh₂- “fame” comes from Old French “fame” […]
An article about German replaced with English cognates
The article about the German language in German replaced with English cognates. If a cognate doesn’t exist, I tried to create one that is as close to what the real one would be if it existed Dutch Speech The dutch speech beteewise dutch offcurted Dt., Dtsch., is a West Germanic Speech. Ye speechroom umfetch Dutchland, […]
Interesting connections
heart and discord “heart” comes from Old English “heorte”, from Proto Germanic *hertô, from Proto Indo European *ḱḗr. All these words mean “heart”. The word “discord” comes from Latin “discors” which comes from “dis” means “apart” and “cor” meaning “heart”. “cor” is also descended from Proto Indo European *ḱḗr. true and tree “true” comes from […]
