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JamesTheJerk t1_j0t9wln wrote
Reply to comment by PfizerGuyzer in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Sure however the article is vague. If someone reading it sees the word 'machine', what conclusion is most easily drawn? And the entire article is written like that. It's deliberately metaphorical and this naturally confuses unexpecting readers.
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Reply to comment by zorokash in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Okay. You kept on saying no one speaks the dying languages. So you can see that language isn't exactly precise and even though you think the definition of dead language isn't obvious, that doesn't mean it's wrong.
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GoAheadMakeMySplay t1_j0t7vlg wrote
Reply to comment by jimthesquirrelking in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Yeah, right here. As a native anglophone, I struggled with Middle English (Chaucer, Canterbury Tales) and Old English was undecipherable (Beowulf) to me
kittylkitty t1_j0t7u70 wrote
Reply to comment by biriyani_lover in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Thai / Laos / Burmese too
nolo_me t1_j0t7t3r wrote
Reply to comment by MarsRocks97 in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
The letter þ was called "thorn", it fell out of use with the rise of the printing press. In blackletter type "Y" was often substituted.
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breakerbrkr t1_j0t5w6q wrote
Reply to Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Give this man the Voynich Manuscript.. time to crack that sucker.
Background-Throat-88 t1_j0t5qp9 wrote
Reply to comment by atre324 in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
Hindi helps a lot in learning sanskrit. They have almost same grammar
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MarsRocks97 t1_j0t5mzi wrote
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On a tangent, but I read somewhere that “Ye” is not pronounced like in yet or yeet. The archaic letter Y was just commonly used to denote a “th” sound.
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pittyh t1_j0t4fpt wrote
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I google Paanini Machine, it comes back with a sandwich maker...
Staerebu t1_j0t4aku wrote
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A hundred years ago an academic realised Panini's approach would quickly put them out a job and promptly set about creating innumerable rules to keep themselves employed
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AffectionateStorm106 t1_j0t2ud2 wrote
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Look up gandhara school and mathura school of art. Sadly most of the gandhara art pieces have been destroyed by the taliban
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Emotional-Top-8284 t1_j0tai5e wrote
Reply to comment by kittylkitty in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289
I do not believe that these languages are descended from Sanskrit, though they may share vocabulary. Sanskrit is an indo-European language, and Thai/Laos /Burmese are not.