guess what i'm cooking tonight [TOTALLY SERIOUS GAME]

Jas · Post by **Jas** » 27 May 2020, 14:27

unoduetre wrote: ↑
27 May 2020, 14:22
For a similar reason, I wouldn't be able to write quality literature in English without a lot (A LOT) of effort.

understandable.

But is it something you're interested in?

Not necessarily literature but mastering English?

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 27 May 2020, 14:35

It's difficult to say. I'm not like a huge English language nerd or anything like that.

But I'd like to GM in English. I think it'd be fun.

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 27 May 2020, 14:36

But I am interested in linguistics in general.

Jas · Post by **Jas** » 27 May 2020, 14:40

I can say honestly that I'm not particularly interested in linguistics.

However, word etymology is interesting to me.

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 27 May 2020, 14:44

Oh, that's also very interesting!

E.g. I like to find cognates between Polish and English (they're both in the indo-european family of languages).

(Most languages of Europe belong to the indo-european family (besides Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Basque (and some others)), and also languages like Iranian and some languages from India).

The numbers are so similar in all indo-european languages!

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 27 May 2020, 14:45

And also the traditional pagan religions were very similar.

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 27 May 2020, 14:46

@Jas

Do you have some interesting examples from etymology?

Jas · Post by **Jas** » 27 May 2020, 14:50

None of the top of my head. But when I learn a new word (English or otherwise) I'll look up the roots.

It often can be pretty interesting, seeing how common words are built from seemingly disparate roots.

Like I said, I can't come up with an example, though.

unoduetre · Post by **unoduetre** » 27 May 2020, 14:51

Sure, no worries.