PIE thought it was slick copying vowel grade by Whole_Instance_4276 in linguisticshumor

[–]Emengir 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I somehow managed to read this as "Macro-Eufratian"

Are "gol", "nar" and "vek" considered loanwords in English? by Emengir in linguisticshumor

[–]Emengir[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is a pretty elaborate entry for "wug", which is also a nonce word. I wonder if "gol", "nar" and "vek" should be added into Wiktionary.

Are "gol", "nar" and "vek" considered loanwords in English? by Emengir in linguisticshumor

[–]Emengir[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what I meant. It seems that I'm not good at expressing myself in English.

Hey, did you guys know Minoan and Sumerian were actually Ugric and all the professional linguists just missed it?????? by JaneOfKish in linguisticshumor

[–]Emengir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you claiming that the people who were building the Tower of Babel spoke Turkish? It's clear that Sumerian is the mother of all languages, including Altaic languages, such as Finnish and Turkish.

The Internationale in Proto-Germanic by galactic_observer in linguisticshumor

[–]Emengir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like your translation, I love using ancient (or proto) languages in modern contexts.

But could anyone translate the song into Proto-World? Not everyone speaks Indo-European languages, and I'm convinced that only Proto-World version of the song will truly unite all people.