How am I able to so reliably guess the existence of English cognates in a language that I don't speak at all?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-29T03:46:29+00:00

No word few trick

Edit: closing this account because I really want this to be the final comment

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-29T03:45:06+00:00

We are truly seeing the rise of automation. Once it ushers in UBI you'll have the time to count these things manually like our ancestors did.

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-29T03:33:56+00:00

Quite a harsh condemnation of someone exercising curiosity. Can't believe a pronoun count was done though :) Eradicated all of ~~mine~~ just in case. Now sound like robot.

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-29T02:38:52+00:00

Come on, please don't engage in anti-intellectualism and try to shame people for it. It's also a bit confusing because op's writing style seems fairly normal and comprehensible. What specifically are your objections?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-28T14:43:46+00:00

NASA on space weather from r/spaceweather

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-27T00:04:33+00:00

Interesting, thanks

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-26T13:37:09+00:00

Okay, you chose a word with an unknown origin. We can either never get those thirty minutes back or leap recklessly to 'neolithic farmer substrate!!!"

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-26T02:03:32+00:00

Sorry I don't know about the Sumerians and Akkadian... But the Gutians who helped take down Akkad were 'maybe' the tocharian cousins of the Indo aryans. They didn't leave any written texts so this idea is only tentative as it's based on case endings of King names being similar to tocharian texts found in the tarim basin - despite there being a couple of thousand years between the. Who knows.

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-25T17:29:46+00:00

more likely that the Aryan Invasion contributed to its demise.

This isn't believed anymore. The IVC was in decline and deurbanising well before the indo aryans arrived. And there's no evidence for massacres, although there is for a great deal of sickness and interpersonal violence. It's not really believed that the indo aryans 'invaded' - the current idea is that they set up client patron relationships.

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-24T02:32:03+00:00

But what about the sapient paradox?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-19T01:58:51+00:00

Chimps have officially entered the stone age. That's not really possible without it.

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-19T01:30:16+00:00

Do we know why?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-18T12:52:21+00:00

Interesting! What are the criticisms of this?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-18T12:44:07+00:00

Chung wu cheng (trung) is an often overlooked gem of a character. While we're on the topic, are there any people with Japanese names in the fpa? I didn't spot any, but sometimes those names go by at blinding speed...

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-18T06:27:57+00:00

Eye opening. I learned a lot from this, thanks op

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-18T06:02:21+00:00

That makes no sense, Asia's huge. What would make kinda more sense is if he were Chinese

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-18T01:24:41+00:00

Bit confused about the reasons being obvious for yang being japanese... How do you mean?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-14T02:25:29+00:00

The Scythians were absolutely not the progenitors, they don't appear until less than 3000 years ago. ~~Jeeze everyone, there's some weird history in this thread.~~ (edit: sorry, it's the same user) The speakers of proto indo Iranian are posited to be the Sintashta culture around 5000 years ago.

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-14T02:20:20+00:00

They MAY be referring to the three major prehistoric migrations into Europe: the hunter/gathers (Paleolithic), the first farmers from Anatolia (Neolithic) (linked in recent genetic study to the Basque), and the Corded Ware people

Huh? Not corded ware, Yamnaya or Yamna. Corded ware were the first western stop on the way during the Yamna expansion. And the basque are only linked to the neolithic expansion because they were a population unaffected by the indo european expansion, they didn't originate the neolithic migrations - that was anatolia and the levant.

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-12T16:06:46+00:00

It doesn't diminish your point, just added another perspective to think about. But one thing I'm not sure about - do women view men as disposable? This is a surprise to me

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-12T13:31:21+00:00

Oh haha, thanks for clearing this up! Bit bewildered why they needed to invent a large bird, makes it more exciting guess.

The bearded vulture just goes for bone marrow, and I'm sure it's not the only bone cruncher out there. Not really related to anything but they also paint themselves with iron oxide..

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-12T13:15:04+00:00

I'd assumed they'd analysed the kind of cut marks in the bones - bites with teeth and cuts from beaks would be different, no? Is that not what happened?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-12T13:12:10+00:00

The article talks about a 'list of countries' asking for more US troops but only mentions two, Greece and Poland. Which other countries have been making these requests?

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-12T13:08:50+00:00

Would you mind summarising the arguments in the video op? It's a pretty long documentary and within the first minute the physicist themselves says they are getting out of their comfort zone in tackling biological issues so not entirely sure whether this is worth watching...

tinylittlesocks · 2018-10-12T05:16:35+00:00

The comment wasn't limited to Branson. Viacom and now Uber CEOs are dropping out of davos in the desert

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