Words That Last

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Post by mitmads » Tue, May 07, 2013, 10:57 PM UTC

Re: Words That Last

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Post by mitmads » Tue, May 07, 2013, 11:03 PM UTC

"Father (English), padre (Italian), pere (French), pater (Latin) and pitar (Sanskrit) are cognates" - From related article http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/lingui...

Re: Words That Last

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Post by tokenadult » Tue, May 07, 2013, 11:08 PM UTC

Previous submission of main article, which has been on the front page of HN for several hours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179

By the way, I agree with the several comments there that the hypothesis mentioned in the article is far from generally accepted by linguists. (That's probably why the underlying scientific study was published in PNAS rather than in Language or Science, where I'd expect a truly path-breaking paper in linguistics to be published.)

Re: Words That Last

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Post by mitmads » Wed, May 08, 2013, 1:40 AM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #3

Previous submission of main article, which has been on the front page of HN for several hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179 By the way, I agree with the several comments there that the hypothesis mentioned in the article is far from generally accepted by linguists. (That's probably why the underlying scientific study was published in PNAS rather than in Language or Science, where I'd expect a truly pa…

Sorry, didn't know of the original post.