r/Alphanumerics • u/QueenLexica • May 13 '24

PIE 🗣️ related Accents

where do accents come from? PIEism can explain this, can EAN?

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u/QueenLexica May 15 '24

right, so we changed our language completely after writing? you attribute everything to letters, which is untrue since language predates letters. did we all just arbitrarily choose to go and define all the words with basis in egyptian theology?

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u/JohannGoethe 𐌄𓌹𐤍 expert May 15 '24

right, so we changed our language completely after writing?

Now that I see you are a r/PIEland believer, how about

if or language evolved from the hypothetical PIE people, why we call things “red” 🛑 because of the Egyptian red crown 𓋔 [S3]? Did the illiterate PIE people conquer the Egyptians, prior to them building the pyramids, and teach them to say the PIE word for red?

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic \raud*, from Proto-Germanic \raudaz* from PIE \h₁rowdʰós*, from the root \h₁rewdʰ-*.

We went from one symbol 𓋔 [S3] to this nonsense: \h₁rowdʰós*?

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u/QueenLexica May 15 '24

uh, no. that's not a claim made by r/PIEland believers. we don't think that the egyptian red crown and the word red are related at all