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I know a Scott. He works at waffle house

TBF Beowulf is probably not the best example since it's poetry. Old English is still obviously its own language but if you've got a few basic notions of phonology and/or some knowledge of another Germanic language you'll probably be able to decipher a bit of OE prose. Poetry on the other hand will still be hard as fuck.

This is the kind of conspiracy the fits right at home with flat earth.

I wouldn't go to r/Buddhism and tell them that it isn't a religion - you'll get a lot more than a few downvotes :)

This is beautiful and very interesting, thank you for sharing

They likely are - the whole region was heavily influenced by Hindu / Buddhist cultures. further south, Malay has a lot of lingual overlaps with Sanskrit for instance

Similar mining towns were established in apartheid South Africa and along the Boer regions as well. A fundamental and racist distinction can be noted in how different ‘white mining towns” were treated when compared to black mining towns. This continues today with a lack of investment in black neighbourhoods across several majorly interracial states

Wasn’t the Nubian region one of the most prosperous regions of all time?

Lafcadio Hearn? Although he was half Irish and only born in Greece raised in Ireland.

beowulf is old english though

Is "soote" soot? Otherwise it didn't seem that tough. But I also obviously could just be wrong in understanding so there's that lol.

Granted I also don't understand what soot would even mean in this context unless it's a poem about volcanoes or something lol

Edit: I looked it up.. it means sweet? Guess I had no idea what I was talking about anyway

I speak Latvian and I understood all but three words you listed. This is neat as fuck. The Sanskrit sentence reads more like Latgalian dialect. Probably because the region borders with Lithuania.

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But Sanskrit is a language, not a writing system. It can be written in multiple writing systems.

Sounds like Panini was bread for success, sandwiched between other great works, still managed to spread amazing teachings, filling gaps in our knowledge, risen to great things....

this is something i've always wondered about: the ancient Greek names of the zodiac constellations are the same as the ancient indian ones (which are still in use today).

During Alexander's campaigns, some of his soldiers stayed back in India. They primarily settled in 2 areas of India, one of which is the region you visited - which explains the blue eyes and fair skin (genes traced back to Greeks). I mention this only because, we have a lot of people with European genes owing to colonials (British, French, Dutch, Portuguese etc) who conquered various parts of the country and mingled with the natives.

More like pretty common. The Alphabet you are using right now was originally developed for Phoenician, a Semitic language, adapted by the Greeks for Greek, not related. Also adapted to Etruscan, not related. From there adapted to Latin, not related to either of those and then once more to English, which is related to Latin but not that closely. Cyrillic is an adaptation of the Greek variant for Slavic languages and of course also not related to Phoenician.

And let's not even talk about cuneiform.

the name Alexander is still popular in india in the form of Sikander. it's also a word that means victor.

Latin or ancient Greek help as they train analysing sentences. But there is no point in learning those first and then Sanskrit.

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> They assumed it meant earlier rules had precedence over later rules

Other way around, within a priority level the later rule overrides the earlier (is the historical interpretation).

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Can you work backwards in works like go from Milton and Shakespeare (modern english let's say) to Chaucer (middle english) to Beowulf (old english) and learn the language like that?

I read Paradise Lost and even that was hard for me since English is my 2nd language.