Exactly.
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Posted on 12/16/2017 9:05:24 PM PST by Kaslin
Catherine Zeta-Jones was one of nature’s wonders, impossibly beautiful. Unfortunately, she’s had stuff done to her face, so that, instead of looking like an incredibly beautiful woman who is growing old, she’s beginning to look like an alien.
Zeta was the sixth letter in the Ionic alphabet, which eventually became the standard alphabet, but some early regional alphabets had the letter digamma (which looked like the Roman F and was in the same spot). In the Greek numerical system, zeta equaled 7 (digamma was 6).
With Greek numerals, the first 9 letters were the numbers from 1 to 9, the second 9 stood for 20, 30, etc., and the third 9 stood for the hundreds. That required using three obsolete letters--digamma, qoppa (equivalent to our Q, immediately following pi), and sampi (a sibilant, following omega). The number 111 would be represented with rho-iota-alpha. It makes the Roman numerals seem easy.
"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy." ― Henry Kissinger
Aliens need love too.
She has Michael.
On one college campus, on fraternity row, a fraternity was advertising itself as I Phelta Thi.
Digamma is apparently cognate to the Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician letter waw or vav, which also had the numerical value of 6. (The literal meaning of “waw” is “hook”.)
I’ll be bCK AFTER the pictures are posted.
Definitely. The Greek alphabet is derived from the Phoenician alphabet and largely keeps the same order of letters. The Greek names of the letters are slightly garbled versions of the Phoenician/Canaanite/Hebrew names...aleph into alpha, beth into beta, etc.
One example is Greek oinos "wine" (cf. Latin vinum which had a W sound for the V)--it was woinos earlier in Greek. Or Greek ergon, originally wergon, which is cognate with English "work" (G in Greek often corresponds to K in English).
Language is such a fluid thing.
I wonder why there are so many?
From 1998, ahead of it’s time
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/terry-ferguson-for-senate-1/2870443
The Indo-European languages have been the most studied--extremely diverse now but all going back to a common ancestor or closely-related dialects five to six thousand years ago. David Anthony's The Horse, the Wheel, and Language has a lot of fascinating information on the rise and dispersal of the Indo-European languages.
English and German are from the same branch so more closely related than say, English and Kurdish or English and Russian, but German is still difficult for a native English-speaker to learn. German has shifted some consonants compared to the ancestral forms: German has D where English has TH (denken/think, du/thou, etc.), B where English has V (Knabe/knave, sieben/seven, etc.), and other cases.
Sometimes there is also a shift in meaning: German sterben "to die" vs. English starve, German Herbst "fall" vs. English harvest, German Tier "wild animal" or "beast" vs. English deer, etc.
Yeah...OUCH!!!
>>Honestly, it’s more likely that reproduction will decrease because men of every stripe will just decide to stop being abused by self-centered women.<<
Every innocuous gesture a man does towards a woman (smile, open a door, ask for a date) is now a sexual harassment incident to be used against him at a future date until his death (no statute of limitations) should he achieve fame.
Men are now swearing off hugging in the office or even in social situations. Soon, men will not even dare talk to women unless forced to by meetings.
Agree. On the other hand, women can do whatever they want and get away with it. Think about when that immature ‘woman’ asked Clinton “Boxers or Shorts?”. If a man did that to a woman politician his live would become a living hell.
Exactly.
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It’s the syntax that baffles me.
And the character alphabets versus pictograms like Chinese or/and Japanese.
Do they REALLY expect to have it both ways?
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