The "OMG! Look what happened in DoC!" Thread

[DC123456789]

Well, they're all Semitic languages, so of course they have vocabulary in common.

 

[Leoreth]

Swedish and Hindi are both Indo-European languages, good luck finding identical words in them.

 

[civ_king]

Swedish and Hindi are both Indo-European languages, good luck finding identical words in them.

The difference is that Hebrew is a resurrected language and Arabic has the Quran as a major retarding effect on linguistic drift as such there is fair less time for them to have drifted.

 

[Yudishtira]

Swedish and Hindi are both Indo-European languages, good luck finding identical words in them.

Never said identical, and was talking about one subfamily of Indo-European. Nevertheless, the words for 'eight' are pretty close: 'atta' vs. 'ath'

'Eight' is even still similar in some non-Indo-European languages, eg. 'yetu' in Tamil and 'hachi' (consider Spanish 'ocho') in Japanese...

 

[Leoreth]

Semitic languages aren't Indo-European though.

 

[Yudishtira]

Semitic languages aren't Indo-European though.

I have to admit that officially they aren't, and I didn't know that. But since the Semitic languages in question all originated in such a small area, it's not surprising that they are more alike than Indo-European languages from opposite ends of different continents.

I'm still right about 'eight' though aren't I?

 

[merijn_v1]

Swedish and Hindi are both Indo-European languages, good luck finding identical words in them.

Pyjama(s).

 

[KMRblue1027]

Pyjama(s).

Isn't that cheating? That's a transplant word IIRC.

 

[merijn_v1]

Isn't that cheating? That's a transplant word IIRC.

I know. We also use it in Dutch and I happen to know it is a transplant word from the Hindi language. Otherwise I didn't no word either. But that has also something to do with the fact that I neither speak Swedish nor Hindi.

 

[VGL]

Maybe china should be less powerful?

 

[Leoreth]

I have to admit that officially they aren't, and I didn't know that. But since the Semitic languages in question all originated in such a small area, it's not surprising that they are more alike than Indo-European languages from opposite ends of different continents.

That's true, although I've heard there are dialects of Arabic that are mutually unintelligible.

(Semitic languages have an interesting way to derive words from roots that is entirely different from how Indo-European languages work, by the way.)

I'm still right about 'eight' though aren't I?

Don't know. I don't know much about linguistics, but I do know that gut feeling isn't the most reliable way to approach it.

 

[Sanguivorant]

That's true, although I've heard there are dialects of Arabic that are mutually unintelligible.

*Cough* Moroccans *Cough*

 

[Leoreth]

Is today leetspeak day?

 

[need my speed]

(Semitic languages have an interesting way to derive words from roots that is entirely different from how Indo-European languages work, by the way.)

How do you mean? Could you expand upon that?

 

[Leoreth]

Look here.

 

[SouthernKing]

Swedish and Hindi are both Indo-European languages, good luck finding identical words in them.

McDonald's

 

[phoenix_sprite]

The middle-east at the advent of Arabia's spawn. I am playing Rome.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Arabia is gonna clean up.

 

[Xfactor]

AI really likes weird city placements too bad arabia has to pay maintainence for those

 

[JiimBV]

I'm loving the prevalence of Orthodoxy in that Middle East... too bad Arabia's gunna have to erase all of it.