I’ve never measured my weight in stone. It’s not really a thing anymore

I hope the author manages to fix their space key

You are not young… but with age comes wisdom

Now this is an epic space fact

I’m not moving any posts. I’m not sure if it’s just confusion with terminology but I’m using it to refer to a religious group/sect/movement, not practices.

You said all religion is filled with the same shit, which is profoundly ignorant. Nowhere did I say that religion hasn’t caused atrocities. But if you think that all religious traditions are the same, you have some reading to do.

Now that genuinely is reductionist

Don’t you think that’s a bit reductionist? I mean, you’ll also find commands for genocide and slavery.

And rocks are toys, so science is toys

Billionaires? Wolves.

Yeah, I found that article in my research. The 8000 year thing is just referring to the dating of when PIE was spoken (which is debated) and isn’t unique to the word *laks. There are lots of words which can be confidently reconstructed in PIE with consistent meanings, including mother, father, brother, sister, wine, eye, ewe, head, foot, to bear, to eat, to sit, to stand etc. Lax is just particularly interesting because of its stable form and geographic distribution.

Definitely not if we’re talking about recorded words. Lax and its cognates are attested in branches of Proto Indo European which aren’t written until the first millennium CE at the earliest. The oldest attestation of a cognate of lax (lax is the native English firm of the word, lox is borrowed from Yiddish which is in turn borrowed from German Lachs) would be from Tocharian, in which laks meant fish. There are so many words which are attested thousands of years earlier with consistent meaning over time across more branches of the Indo European tree like words denoting family relations, food and drink and other basic vocabulary. (Of course that’s not to say there’s no semantic shift in individual branches, like Ancient Greek φρατηρ meaning ‘brother’ in the sense of a fellow member of a community).

The reason why linguists were interested in lax was because of its consistent form over time and across branches of Indo European and the role it played in the question of the Indo-European homeland - the proposed PIE reconstruction *laks- is pretty much identical to Modern English lax and other cognates, although earlier forms of the word such as Old English leax (ea being pronounced like General American English a in cat followed by the first vowel in father) show that the pronunciation isn’t entirely unchanged.

But thanks for your comment, it prompted some research to make my morning more interesting!

Instead, rely on the comments

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Fog of woman

Tja

Depending on the industry/role, companies do background checks or might ask for references from previous employers, so it’s fine unless you get caught

Yeah, I was a senior manager at Lehman Brothers from 2000 to 2008, trust me bro

In a way, the demise of the dinosaurs is kind of like the fall of Rome (the 5th century one), in that the conditions created by the impact wiped out many of the dinosaurs, but birds survived and are only not considered (by some) to be dinosaurs because of our categorisation, in the same way that the fall of Rome which was completed by Germanic invaders left the Eastern Roman Empire to survive long after that, and despite denial from some, has direct descendance from the Roman Empire.

If you draw silly faces on the eggs will they hatch into silly geese?