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Not oui in French?
If you read the article, this is a pattern in a number of languages, so there's no reason for it to come from French. It's also unlikely because the pronunciation is very different: https://forvo.com/word/oi/#ca
I really like profanity laced erudite articles, for some reason. Maybe it scratches a similar hitch that Rick does in Rick and Morty. Which makes me think, man I'd love to read a scientific paper written by Rick! :)
I like the use of hip hop lingo too, like the "Slavic shit" the Romanians are "on" and the "dope" way the Gaulish moustache-boys talk. Actually - and I don't know whether this was intentional on the writer's part - there's a parallel there, between people being attracted to how the Gauls talked (i.e. away from the very uncool "official" language of Latin), and the widespread appeal and co-option of hip hop lingo. Hip…
Great article. On a side note, I took five years of French and never learned that si is specifically for contradicting a negative. Sup with that.
I do wish future articles take note how adding humor to an article shows a level of care and understanding about the subject/ideas.
The disdain for Slavik in the article is confirming a slight bias.
[1]: also europe, eukaryote, oi-punk, Euler. Well, almost. "arobe" means harbor (ger. Heimathaven?) in some European language but I CBA to look up which it was or how it's written, right now.
Sardinian for yes is 'eja' which I've read is derived differently from the two methods suggested here though I haven't seen any suggestions on what that derivation might be.
[1]: "thus it is so," or "it is true," or "and how!".
I wonder, is occitan not related to occident and orient? and oil, well, that's norse for beer, remember where normandy has it's name from? That doesn't explain yes, no; but eu, as in euphemism might[1]. Heureka! In other news, what does si in greek letters look like? "σι"! Pretty close to oi nowadays and Celtic druids are speculated to have visited Greece. That doesn't invalidate the "this there" story, but maybe pre…
Nope!
The orient is where the sun rises and the occident is where the sun sets.
All of these have been traced back to Proto-Indo-European and have different origins:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orior#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/occido#Etymology_1
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ob#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hic#Latin
Edit: the eu- also has a different PIE etymology.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B5%E1%BD%96#Ancient_Greek
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If you read the article, this is a pattern in a number of languages, so there's no reason for it to come from French. It's also unlikely because the pronunciation is very different: https://forvo.com/word/oi/#ca
Catalonia borders France and has some similarities though.
Loved that pun from Baudolino by Umberto Eco: "I know, Master Niketas, that the center of the universe is your city here, but the world is vaster than your empire, and there's even Ultima Thule and the land of Hibernians. True, compared to Constantinople, Rome is a pile of ruins and Paris is a muddy village, but even there something happens every now and then. In many vast, vast regions of the world people don't spea…