The Etruscan Language

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #30 on: March 30, 2021, 06:54:48 AM »
I think there are degrees in how dead a language is.
Perhaps, but does it really matter to anyone other than an academic?
It matters to anybody interested in social sciences, does not it?
Anybody?  No.  I would say that, at best, it matters to people interested in studying and/or preserving dead or extinct languages.  That would be a rather small subset of social science.
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #31 on: March 30, 2021, 01:02:03 PM »
It matters to anybody interested in social sciences, does not it?

It matters to anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, human geographers, linguists, mathematicians, management scientists, media academics, political scientists, psychologists, and historians?

I mean, linguists and maybe human geographers, sure.
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2021, 12:43:57 AM »
It matters to anybody interested in social sciences, does not it?

It matters to anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, human geographers, linguists, mathematicians, management scientists, media academics, political scientists, psychologists, and historians?

I mean, linguists and maybe human geographers, sure.
Well, it seems to interest many people, as I got 150 upvotes this night on this Reddit post, more than for any post all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/how_would_you_say_the_etruscan_language_died_two/
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #33 on: April 12, 2021, 01:22:56 AM »
It matters to anybody interested in social sciences, does not it?

It matters to anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, human geographers, linguists, mathematicians, management scientists, media academics, political scientists, psychologists, and historians?

I mean, linguists and maybe human geographers, sure.
Well, it seems to interest many people, as I got 150 upvotes this night on this Reddit post, more than for any post all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/how_would_you_say_the_etruscan_language_died_two/

Congrats I guess. I'm not sure what upvotes gets you. Seems that no one really cares to comment though. Does anyone really care about what you think some dead letters/words mean other than poking an up arrow because you were able to paste an Etruscan glyph font?

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #34 on: April 12, 2021, 07:31:20 AM »
It matters to anybody interested in social sciences, does not it?

It matters to anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, human geographers, linguists, mathematicians, management scientists, media academics, political scientists, psychologists, and historians?

I mean, linguists and maybe human geographers, sure.
Well, it seems to interest many people, as I got 150 upvotes this night on this Reddit post, more than for any post all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/how_would_you_say_the_etruscan_language_died_two/

Congrats I guess. I'm not sure what upvotes gets you. Seems that no one really cares to comment though. Does anyone really care about what you think some dead letters/words mean other than poking an up arrow because you were able to paste an Etruscan glyph font?
Well, you are right that I do not know for sure why people there are upvoting my post. However, from the few comments I received, they seem to imply they think I am right.
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #35 on: April 12, 2021, 08:11:24 AM »
Well, it seems to interest many people, as I got 150 upvotes this night on this Reddit post, more than for any post all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/how_would_you_say_the_etruscan_language_died_two/

You posted something of interest on a niche subreddit and a few people bothered to upvote it, i.e., give you fake internet points after probably just reading the title?

Cool?
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #36 on: April 12, 2021, 08:14:08 AM »
Well, it seems to interest many people, as I got 150 upvotes this night on this Reddit post, more than for any post all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/how_would_you_say_the_etruscan_language_died_two/

You posted something of interest on a niche subreddit and a few people bothered to upvote it, i.e., give you fake internet points after probably just reading the title?

Cool?
I think that, had they just read the title, they would have probably downvoted my question as a low-effort one, thinking I do not understand how little we know about the Etruscan language.
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #37 on: April 12, 2021, 11:43:14 AM »
It matters to anybody interested in social sciences, does not it?

It matters to anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, human geographers, linguists, mathematicians, management scientists, media academics, political scientists, psychologists, and historians?

I mean, linguists and maybe human geographers, sure.
Well, it seems to interest many people, as I got 150 upvotes this night on this Reddit post, more than for any post all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/how_would_you_say_the_etruscan_language_died_two/

Congrats I guess. I'm not sure what upvotes gets you. Seems that no one really cares to comment though. Does anyone really care about what you think some dead letters/words mean other than poking an up arrow because you were able to paste an Etruscan glyph font?
Well, you are right that I do not know for sure why people there are upvoting my post. However, from the few comments I received, they seem to imply they think I am right.

Which comments seem to think you are right? One person wrote "superb" and you didn't even know what that word meant? Strange.

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #38 on: April 12, 2021, 03:59:59 PM »
It matters to anybody interested in social sciences, does not it?

It matters to anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, human geographers, linguists, mathematicians, management scientists, media academics, political scientists, psychologists, and historians?

I mean, linguists and maybe human geographers, sure.
Well, it seems to interest many people, as I got 150 upvotes this night on this Reddit post, more than for any post all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/how_would_you_say_the_etruscan_language_died_two/

Congrats I guess. I'm not sure what upvotes gets you. Seems that no one really cares to comment though. Does anyone really care about what you think some dead letters/words mean other than poking an up arrow because you were able to paste an Etruscan glyph font?
Well, you are right that I do not know for sure why people there are upvoting my post. However, from the few comments I received, they seem to imply they think I am right.

Which comments seem to think you are right? One person wrote "superb" and you didn't even know what that word meant? Strange.
What does that mean? "Commentarius" in Latin means memorandum, right? Should he have issued a memorandum?

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #39 on: April 12, 2021, 04:34:47 PM »
Perhaps even a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) designating a bilateral agreement between the two parties (Author & Memo'er) that his post was, indeed, superbus, i.e., arrogant, and without merit.

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #40 on: May 06, 2022, 01:01:42 AM »
What do you guys think, would "Nac avil pulumχva falatul snuiaφ, aca Rasnal amuce ziv, nanatnam ica cnara." be good Etruscan for "The Etruscan language has been dead for years as numerous as the stars of heaven and nobody knows it."?

I got this on an Internet forum here, and it seems very plausible to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/comment/i751f9w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #41 on: May 06, 2022, 02:09:28 AM »
What do you guys think, would "Nac avil pulumχva falatul snuiaφ, aca Rasnal amuce ziv, nanatnam ica cnara." be good Etruscan for "The Etruscan language has been dead for years as numerous as the stars of heaven and nobody knows it."?

I got this on an Internet forum here, and it seems very plausible to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/comment/i751f9w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Sounds like Klingonese to me

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #42 on: May 10, 2022, 04:54:37 AM »
What do you guys think, would "Nac avil pulumχva falatul snuiaφ, aca Rasnal amuce ziv, nanatnam ica cnara." be good Etruscan for "The Etruscan language has been dead for years as numerous as the stars of heaven and nobody knows it."?

I got this on an Internet forum here, and it seems very plausible to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/mor62e/comment/i751f9w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Sounds like Klingonese to me
Well, to me, it seems like almost-certainly-valid Etruscan.

Nac - for (time)

avil - year; it goes in singular, as we can see in the phrase 'nac ci avil', 'for three years', attested on Pyrgi Tablets

pulumχva - stars; irregular plural (not with the suffix -ar-), attested also on Pyrgi Tablets

falatul - of the sky (genitive singular of "falatu")

snuiaφ - as numerous; the phrase 'pulumχva snuiaφ' meaning 'as numerous as stars' is attested on Pyrgi Tablets

aca - voice, (perhaps) language

Rasnal - Etruscan

amuce - has been; the perfect of ama (to be)

ziv - dead

nanatnam - "nana-tnam", "nana" meaning "nobody" and "tnam" being the suffix corresponding to Latin "-que".

ica - this

cnara - to know
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #43 on: May 10, 2022, 09:08:09 PM »

 Josiah Ethan Meadows, for example, is a native speaker.
   


I'm a native speaker.   

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #44 on: May 12, 2022, 02:23:04 AM »

 Josiah Ethan Meadows, for example, is a native speaker.
   


I'm a native speaker.
So, how do you like being a native speaker of Latin?
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #45 on: May 12, 2022, 11:27:33 AM »

 Josiah Ethan Meadows, for example, is a native speaker.
   


I'm a native speaker.
So, how do you like being a native speaker of Latin?

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #46 on: May 12, 2022, 12:34:37 PM »

 Josiah Ethan Meadows, for example, is a native speaker.
   


I'm a native speaker.
So, how do you like being a native speaker of Latin?

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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #47 on: May 12, 2022, 01:12:03 PM »
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #48 on: May 12, 2022, 10:16:46 PM »
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Re: The Etruscan Language
« Reply #49 on: May 14, 2022, 09:09:26 AM »
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If that's supposed to mean "You are retarded.", why do you think I am retarded? And you do realize writing in such bad Latin makes you look retarded, rather than me?
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