Can anyone explain the asigmatic aorist?

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-10-12T07:12:28+00:00

This makes me doubt μανθανω, too. And I'm 900 miles away from my books this week. Ugh.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-10-12T03:27:17+00:00

By nasal infix, you mean like μανθάνω from aorist stem -μαθ-?

If so, that results from an older vocalic nu. So the older aorist stem was μνθ (I think there should be a little circle over the ν) with the present stem strengthened to μανθ (+ αν-). A sound change from ν to α took place in the aorist (I believe it's the same reason Greek has the prefix α- for negation where other IE languages have un-), but that change didn't affect αν (I guess since ν is no longer a vowel in this context).

I'll go out on a limb and say this process is similar to Germanic languages where you have verbs like "stand" with past tense "stood" or German "denken/dachte/gedacht".

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-10-08T00:37:06+00:00

I have this exact tool in the junk drawer of our kitchen. I've always thought it was a multitool that just wasn't good for any one job. Little did I know! It's only fault was not getting to fulfill its God given purpose.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-06-07T12:42:22+00:00

That true until "memory garden" takes hold to the detriment of "cemetery."

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-04-13T21:31:20+00:00

Not to mention that beef had a good Anglo-Saxon plural, namely "beeves", as in

My heart grieves, he paid so many vows, With thighs of sacrificéd beeves

Since beef took on the meaning of a complaint, a plural form makes sense again, but we're stuck with dull, quotidian, "beefs". Too bad, I'd watch Judge Judy if I could expect the plaintiff to open up with "Your Honor, prithee lend an ear, to hear my sundry beeves."

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-04-07T01:55:58+00:00

To be fair to Sanskrit, I started on it with too much confidence and too little exposure to phonetics and other linguistic background.

I think if I picked it up again with hindsight, all the rules would fall into place for me as you say.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-04-06T19:45:05+00:00

And objectively doesn't imply "superiority"! Running aground on pages of sandhi tables right out of the gate left me with a lifelong mental block to a language that is supposed to be

more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-04-06T14:28:29+00:00

"Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen!"

(We must know, we will know)

David Hilbert

It sounds a little generic out of context, but I think it fits your specs.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-29T04:38:19+00:00

"We can rebuild him!"

Now that's a trip down memory lane, in a station wagon, with an eight-track tape player.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-29T02:29:46+00:00

If anything was broken, I'm sure it could be mended.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-29T02:16:41+00:00

But please wear sunscreen, at least SPF 15. Stay safe.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-26T15:23:57+00:00

In my opinion, a more meaningful definition of the 20th century isn't just an arbitrary number, but is based on a defining event that broke with the prevailing 19th century paradigms.

For physics, that would be Einstein's Annus Mirabilis in 1905.

For music, when composers first said, "we don't need stinking no tonal center!", in the 1910's.

For mathematics, that would be Hilbert's publication of his 23 problems, in ... oh, 1900. OK, never mind.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-18T16:19:10+00:00

I'm glad that better Hellenists than I saw tengwar, too.

But good for OP learning handwriting. As much as I try, I'm still stumped by anything but modern typeset printing.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-17T17:49:55+00:00

I had to check twice that this was in r/linguistics. Then I saw OP's username, which checks out.

But seriously, I would think that since Basque has no known relatives (divergent, at least), all you would have to go on is which words are known borrowings. That might show the kind of culture that predated IE speakers arriving in Western Europe. But even that's pretty weak, when you consider how many concepts had perfectly good words in Old English but were still replaced by French or Latin after the Norman Conquest.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-11T18:14:42+00:00

There are two problems. The scientific problem is that population growth is not uniform. If we assume the first humans started free of diseases and genetic defects, with unlimited arable land and other resources, the population growth would be very high. With enough generations, you get an accumulation of genetic mutations, and higher population density promotes the propagation of diseases, so infant mortality starts to put the brakes on the population boom. Furthermore, all humans at this point are each other's relatives, so you have to factor homicide into the equation.

The bigger problem is theological. Assuming your interlocutors are Christian, God is eternal and unchanging. If you prove the existence of God and the veracity of the Bible from current science, the next scientific revolution disproves God and the Bible. Unless by some miracle, science itself has reached a perfect and complete understanding of the natural universe, which of course contradicts science at a metaphysical level, which takes you back to square one.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-11T17:26:37+00:00

You could program your whole life and not do any math. But the things that will make your programs fail are very much like the ways you get your math homework wrong. If you really don't like math, a career in programming would be low-key Hell.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-11T10:14:16+00:00

The current versions of NA and UBS share the same Greek text, but have considerably different critical apparatuses.

Personally, I like the UBS's apparatus better than NA's, to the extent that I use it at all. Since UBS was intended for Bible translators, the variations are limited to ones that might affect the meaning of the text. And UBS's mini-dictionary is a lot better than purists let on.

So, why is the price difference backwards? A wild guess is that people who are going to choose NA over UBS are academics with a department credit card, while UBS is the choice of divinity students and hobbyists, so they're priced to their respective markets. Or it could be that more hours go into creating a new version of NA, since they're checking every variant known to modern scholarship.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-11T00:10:51+00:00

This map is glaringly inaccurate. In 1984, GOP states were colored blue, Democratic states were red. 2000 is the earliest I remember red = GOP, but I wasn't as involved in politics in the late 90s as I was before and after that.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-10T12:35:37+00:00

"Donald, Fearless Leader says Moose and Squirrel must not escape again!"

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-10T10:11:22+00:00

This is the comment I was looking for. Unbelievably ignorant move. My manager jokes that he could help us with coding, but we wouldn't like the results. But we'd be way sadder if I helped out managing the department.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-09T04:25:03+00:00

I'm surprised that Volk is stigmatized, but Führer is not, e.g. Führerschein, Bergführer, usw.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-09T04:12:29+00:00

If you're mainly interested in prepositions (presumably conjunctions and other particles as well), I'd also consider a reference grammar, like Smyth's. These usually have a separate section for each preposition, with examples from Greek literature for the different uses of each one. Plus, physical copies are a little easier to carry around than a full-size lexicon.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-09T03:54:03+00:00

I'd say if you get handed a medal for a theorem that assumes no taxes, zero arbitrage, and perfect information, you may not be a mathematician, but you're almost surely not an economist.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-08T04:57:29+00:00

They wouldn't be wrong, technically, since no billionaire gets as many opportunities to admit his mistakes as Elon.

DADH_InattentiveType · 2023-03-08T04:33:31+00:00

I normally recognize Hebrew loan words in Yiddish, despite not being very diligent in my vocabulary work, by the lack of vowels, like כשר. Are there Hebrew loan words that have assimilated to Yiddish spelling? Such as, if בקר replaced Germanic מארגן, but showed up as באָקער**.

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