Written by A new full-revised version of Dnghu‘s main book, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Third Edition, has been published. Details on the revision are found at the Indo-European Linguistics blog. Information on this major release and all subsequent changes will be published at Dnghu’s site on Indo-European Language Grammar. Files containing Proto-Indo-European vocabulary will be found [...]
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Accession of Turkey to the European Union: A Quick Reference of Common Pros and Cons
Spanish President (i.e. Prime Minister) José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero promised he will personally support Turkey’s accesion to the European Union for 2010, because – he says – “that great country has been waiting for too long at the doors of Europe”. That is probably a follow-up of his concept of the Alliance of Civilizations, which [...]
READ MORE »About the European Union’s arcane language: the EU does seem difficult for people to understand
Mark Mardell asks in his post Learn EU-speak: Does the EU shroud itself in obscure language on purpose or does any work of detail produce its own arcane language? Of course it is not just the lingo: the EU does seem difficult for people to understand. What’s at the heart of the problem? His answer [...]
READ MORE »Bronze Age village discovered in central-western Romania, in the region of Transylvania
The official Agerpres news agency reported on Wednesday that a village established in the Bronze Age has been recently discovered near Zalau town, northwestern Romania. The discovery was made following an archeological discharge relating to 2 square kilometers in Recea, close to Zalau. “It is for the fist time in Transylvania, central-western region of Romania, [...]
READ MORE »Rhetoric of debates, discussions and arguments: Useful destructive criticism for scientific & academic research, reasons and personal opinions; the example of Proto-Indo-European language revival
Rhetoric (Wikipedia) is the art of harnessing reason, emotions and authority, through language, with a view to persuade an audience and, by persuading, to convince this audience to act, to pass judgement or to identify with given values. The word derives from PIE root wer-, ‘speak’, as in MIE zero-grade wrdhom, ‘word’, or full-grade werdhom, [...]
READ MORE »Om mani padme hum: an etymology of a mantra common to Hinduism and Buddhism
I was watching the TV this morning and heard some oriental-looking people in a (apparently) Tibetan film saying a sentence I had heard already in other films about India and the Tibet: oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ (Devanagari ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ), probably the most famous mantra in Buddhism, the six syllabled mantra of the bodhisattva [...]
READ MORE »WordPress Translator Plugin, now version 1.2 in English and Spanish – inglés y español
I’ve added some new pairs which seem to work well – but for the Thai version, which gives usually an error message. Catalan and Polish languages are now translated automatically, as there is no need to copy and paste the text. New languages include Danish, Persian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Hebrew, as well as experimental [...]
READ MORE »Indo-European Grammar, 1st Printed Version in English, translated into Deutsch, français, español, italiano, Nederlands, Polski, português, Russian, and other languages thanks to direct web machine translation
The Final Version of A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, 1st Printed Edition, is ready for the Printer, after the Indo-European Revival News. For more information on this release and the changes made since last version, please go to the Indo-European language Association. The association has some collaborative websites prepared for volunteers ready to add some [...]
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