corrocamino
12-04-2012, 06:15 AM
I hated history for the longest time (into my 30s), owing to the soporific dronings of sinecurists in my sad secondary school. Eventually, I sidled up to it, and into it, via biography and autobiography, and I've been addicted ever since.
I love this specimen of historicity:
The Hittite word for "arse" was (straightforwardly transliterated)...ars. What a coincidence? Not at all. It seems that the antecedent Proto-Indo-European root is confidently inferred to be *ars-, which has been carried forward in more than one branch of the great linguistic family!
Nothing new about kicking arse! :>)
Your turn!
I love this specimen of historicity:
The Hittite word for "arse" was (straightforwardly transliterated)...ars. What a coincidence? Not at all. It seems that the antecedent Proto-Indo-European root is confidently inferred to be *ars-, which has been carried forward in more than one branch of the great linguistic family!
Nothing new about kicking arse! :>)
Your turn!