why the ass did they teach us about greek and latin roots in school and not about the even cooler and more badass proto-indo-european roots
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might do a PIE root thread. i’ve been looking up a ton of stuff on etymonline but haven’t been able to figure out the most amusing way to structure it into threads
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okay maybe this is why they didn't teach us PIE stuff in school: apparently there's wide disagreement about a lot of it and the whole field is very speculative. sucks. shoulda taught us anyway
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this page? i had not! this is helpful, i didn’t know this site was mostly (?) being maintained by one guy, that’s wild. he has a helpful disclaimer about PIE too
etymonline.com/columns/post/a
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generally speaking it would've been rad to hear more in school about all the stuff we *don't know*
"hey boys and girls, did you know that literally nobody knows where the words 'boy' or 'girl' came from"
how cool would that have been to hear
*gyrle freond
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big problem with “adulthood” culture embodying “everything is understood, by me”
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Also “dog”.
“Its origin remains one of the great mysteries of English etymology.”
etymonline.com/word/dog#etymo