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Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween
Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View PostIceland: Poor
Cornell '04, Stanford '06
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Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.
Test to see if I can add this.
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Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween
Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View PostIt’s crazy how different Finnish is. I mean I get why because of the history but they all speak Swedish anyway.
That's how you wind up with Finnic being closer to Mongolian than to German, even though it seems bizarre.Cornell University
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Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween
Originally posted by state of hockey View PostFinns, Estonians, and Hungarians are all related, right? Descendants of the Golden Horde?
The Hungarians spread west with Attila in the 5th century and eventually reach the area of modern Hungary in the 9th century.
The Finns and Estonians are MUCH earlier, with Finnish being spoken in Finland as early as 4000 BC. Therefore Uralic has developed as a language group throughout north eastern Europe and northern Asia by the Bronze Age, and all those peoples who come after speaking varieties of it (Finnish, Estonian, Mongol, Hungarian) are all splinters of the original parent language.
It's probably more accurate to think of Uralic as a root language which breaks into lots of regional dialects over the whole area now covered by Mongolia, Russia, and Scandinavia. In the course of history it bumps up against Indo-European along the western and southern edges (central Asia, northern Iran, Turkey, eastern Russia) while meanwhile there are westward waves of migrations within the region, constantly shuffling up the languages and ethnicity.
So, for example, you wind up with "Turkic" people in say the Balkans, but which wave did they come from? You've got choices every 300 years or so in recorded history and nothing to prevent us from assuming those were still happening before there were Greeks to complain about it.
There's a theory that those migratory waves were driven by climate -- the steppe populations were pastoral nomads and they had to go where their animals took them. As the climate changed the feeding areas changed and they came into contact with their neighbors whose land was suddenly a prized resource. Since the Mongols had large horses which they could ride, which people in the west hadn't even seen before, they won. Light cavalry > infantry.
Centaurs are an Anatolian cultural memory of seeing these eastern interlopers for the first time and thing, "oh sh-t, that's a man-horse!" Just like the Aztecs thought when they saw Cortez.Last edited by Kepler; 02-11-2020, 11:41 AM.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostI'm not aware of anyone who wants Northern Ireland to become an independent nation. The choice is UK vs United Ireland.
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Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween
Lol. I thought Brexit would bring all the bestest deals right away
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow signaled that the U.S. will conduct trade negotiations with the EU before the U.K., a reversal from previous months of promises that U.K. negotiations would come first. @jendeben @sdonnan @business
— CSIS Simon Chair (@CSIS_Econ) February 11, 2020
Read more here: https://t.co/BbRCfQQeh6
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Cornell University
National Champion 1967, 1970
ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020
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Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween
The ultimate shot/chaser tweets pic.twitter.com/ht0SMYL5z5
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 15, 2020
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Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween
Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View PostThe ultimate shot/chaser tweets pic.twitter.com/ht0SMYL5z5
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 15, 2020
I think I waited in line at passport control for 20-30 mins entering the EU on my way to Belgium. Brits better learn.
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Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween
The extended Comments on that are good.Cornell University
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ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostThe extended Comments on that are good.Perfectly illustrates the mindset of people like this. Plunked right in the nose with facts contradicting their strongly held beliefs and can't feel it.
— Michael Greenfield (@M_S_Greenfield) February 15, 2020U-A-A!!!Go!Go!GreenandGold!
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