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False etymology? You can roll back sound changes further to *ḱlew- in Proto-Indo-European https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

Yes, but similarity alone is not a guarantee that words are related. The words val and [h]val are not related in Swedish, even though they ended up with the same pronunciation and …

It is linguistically possible that "viking" was simply a self-referential ethnonym, with the first part meaning "home" or "village". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:P…

What if, for example, a dentist refuses to remove malformed wisdom teeth because his morals don't allow him to fix problems that a person is born with, and only fixes tooth damage …

This kind of blanket ban reasoning is kind of cruel to people with genetic diseases in their family line. "Hey, you've got a broken gene? Sucks to be you, my rigid ethics requires …

This is sad though. I'd rather see that ethics gets upgraded so some problems can be fixed. For example, about 8% of men get excluded from certain professions such as being a train…

I was hoping that this article would be about a hypothetical future where people have evolved to have a lower amount of bravery and a lower "fighting spirit", so that they're simpl…

Would it be sane to have a special letter to distinguish the "p" in "park" from the "p" in "spark"? In some languages, it's important, but these two sounds can be represented by th…

Phonemics is more important than phonetics for these things. Sometimes two sounds need to be represented with the same letter if they are similar and their difference is context-de…

On July 2, it became illegal to phrase insults against publicly employed staff such as police officers, teachers, medical personnel, etc. A 60 year old man in Sweden was stopped an…

I also noticed that part in the article. >Why do we have all these studies showing that male and female behaviors are so similar, yet people in everyday life continue to think as i…

Most of the research on this, has been done in the US though... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

Maybe this is how the branches of Indo-European evolved. Laryngeals replaced by vowel lengthenings, merging of consonsants, vowel shifting based on other sounds, etc. It's like the…

Social media no longer represents "many people are saying it". The early internet could give an overview of what's being said in general on a particular topic - but today's content…

I assume the unspecific "they" is a linguistic shortcut for "people in power"

The things people say in the era where comment fields have been removed from news websites (in the name of "avoiding misinformation")...

Both Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian have these multi-character letters, but these Unicode points were created for the typographical needs (or rather, bad habits) of Serbo-Croatian. T…

We are also not descendants of the 18 year old who eagerly followed a leader and died in a trench. What is it with people nowadays, can't there be at least some room for touching t…

But there are nuances to that. I know several people who have escaped a war-torn country and had a successful life elsewhere, instead of getting affected by military propaganda, an…

Another interesting aspect of modern human evolution is the fact that brave men have a higher risk of dying in war, extreme sports, etc. Will male risk behavior be more similar to …