Zompist Bboard Again

keenir wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:30 amDepartment of Greek Philology? I'm supposed to trust Greek Philologists over Comrie and his colleagues?

AFAIK, Hesperia is the more comprehensive online corpus of Paleo-Hispanic inscriptions.

Indeed, it has been bugging me for long that Talskubilos claims to know much more about Iberian than the academic linguistic community! You're exaggerating! Perhaps I know a little more than other scholars, but that's all. :lol: All we have of Iberian are a few hundred inscriptions in a script for ...

On the other hand, Spanish vega and Portuguese veiga are demonstrated Iberian loanwords with no Basque counterpart. um, how can it be demonstrated, when we have no known documents or inscriptions known to unquestioningly be Iberian? {i think in writing systems of the world , Iberian was listed as o...

But I don't understand how you can tell that they're Iberian, when you yourself say you can barely recognize Paleo-Basque. Well, I don't think they're all from Iberian, but at least some of them, as e.g. carrasca . On the other hand, Spanish vega and Portuguese veiga are demonstrated Iberian loanwo...

okay. thank you for the examples; though i confess I don't follow the reasoning of how, with Paleo-Basque looking like that, you feel obligated to look to non-Basque non-IE languages for what you were seeking. What's the problem with Iberian? On the other hand, there're traces of non-Celtic IE lang...

Are you sure about those? They're also other not-so-weird correspondences, as e.g.: Spanish chorro 'jet' ~ Basque iturri 'spring, source', apparently a compound whose first member is related to *ib- ~*ub- > ur, u(h)- 'water'. Spanish carrasca 'a kind of oak' ~ Basque gardaska, gardatx 'oak scrub'

If you're going back to Latin or Pre-Latin times, that would make it by default not modern form of Basque; instead, it would be a Latin-era form of Basque...so rather than go looking for Iberian, why not just take the opportunity to look at what Basque was like in the time of Marius and Caesar? The...

NW Catalonia (Pallars, Ribagorça) has plenty of toponyms from a Romance language quite different from Catalan, so Mozarabic was spoken in the Pyrenaic area outside the homeland of Catalan. What evidence is there that this "Romance language quite different from Catalan" is Mozarabic? In th...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:18 pmCalling yourself a "dissident" does not legitimize your position, but it will lead to more deaths, because there will be those who will foolishly listen to your kind as a result.

You're brainwashed.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:00 pmThat word doesn't mean what you seem to think it means: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/covidiot.

That's right, but we "dissidents" have reversed its meaning.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 10:49 amThe first is Catalan and the second is Aragonese.

I'd say "Neo-Aragonese", i.e. a modern koiné based on the surviving dialects. Aragonese itself is bordering extinction, being thoroughly replaced by Spanish.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:23 pmYou really have gone full conspiracy nut, I see.

And you've gone covidiot.

Talskubilos seems to think that COVID-19 was deliberately created and released for the purposes of bringing about reactions to a pandemic, as he seems to think that 9/11 was deliberately carried out by the US gov't itself rather than by Islamist terrorists, and so on.... That's right. It looks like...

Are you aware that COVID-19 is an actual virus that people can actually catch? If we have to believe the official narrative, most people who catch the SARS-COV-2 would be healthy or only have mild syntoms. COVID-19 is the first pandemic of "asymptomatic" cases. :mrgreen: Also the dead are...

We're at close to five million dead now, and almost two years of complete social disruption. That's ample justification for a mandatory vaccine. If there's any kind of alternative plan I'd love to hear about it. This is an instance of the classical problem-solution scheme: the same people who cause...

Brainwashed into what? Thinking vaccines are the answer to mass pandemics? There's no need for brainwashing. I only need to look up how small pox was eradicated, or why we don't have mass outbreaks of polio in the West anymore. COVID-19 and polio have very little in common, among other things becau...

How are 9/11 and 7/7 relevant here? It's too much coincidence the real thing happened the very same day drills were carried out. Also Madrid's train bombings (11th March 2003) happened immediatedly after a NATO anti-terrorism exercise (4th-10th March). And where exactly is the proof that COVID-19 i...

That said, in the 9th century the differences in the local vernacular were probably minimum. What does that mean exactly? Old Catalan is clearly distinct from Mozarabic even from the earliest attestations. Oh, sure, but the earliest attestations are, IIRC, from the 11th century. I don't know how di...

alice wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:32 amNo; they're Wanderwörter, and we'll keep using them. You should be grateful.

I suppose you live in Wonderland.

Most Romance languages lost case without losing vocalic endings, and although they use vocalic endings as inflections for other categories - if you look at the verbal system or plural formation e.g. in Italian, a lot hangs on different vowels being used for differentiating functions. It works bette...