Archive:

Day: February 20, 2016

What non-Roman scripts keep foreign words in Roman?

By: | Post date: 2016-02-20 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Modern Greek, Writing Systems

In the last few decades, written Greek uses Roman script for foreign names by default, unless the name is extremely newsworthy. So you’ll see Το συγκινητικό ντοκιμαντέρ για τη ζωή της Amy Winehouse (The moving documentary on Amy Winehouse’s life) Rehab της Amy Winehouse, σε διασκευή των Vocal Adrenaline. (Rehab by Amy Winehouse, arranged by […]

History: During Alexander’s invasions, would his soldiers have found Old Persian or Indic to be somewhat familiar sounding given their closeness to Greek?

By: | Post date: 2016-02-20 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Ancient Greek, Linguistics

Good insight, Sabeshan. Probably.  And they probably wouldn’t have cared. 300 BC was a good time to be doing historical linguistics. The Indo-European languages were a lot closer to each other back then than they are now. In fact, the only reason Indo-European was discovered and reconstructed when it was, was that we had 2000 […]

  • Subscribe to Blog via Email

    Join 325 other subscribers

  • February 2016
    M T W T F S S
    « Jan   Mar »
    1234567
    891011121314
    15161718192021
    22232425262728
    29