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Re: Doric forms?

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jeidsath wrote:Spartans didn't tell jokes...
Wasn't the μολὼν λαβέ sort of a joke? I'll grant you that Athens was the funnier city.
...but if they had, they would have been puns.
μωρὸς, μόνος μολὼν μόλις ἐς μῶλον, μόρον ἐκ μορῶν ἔμμορεν.

(An idiot, coming alone and with difficulty to the battle, received as his lot death from the (Spartan) divisions.)

https://archive.org/details/AJokeInAncientGreek

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Re: Doric forms?

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The pre-print that I linked a few months ago hit Nature this week:

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/02/10/013433

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/sc ... errer&_r=0

"More ancient DNA could swing the balance of evidence in favor of one theory over the other, Dr. Heggarty said. A stronger case for a steppe origin of Indo-European might emerge, for example, if scientists discovered that Greeks around 4,500 years ago abruptly acquired Yamnaya DNA."
“One might get one’s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato." "In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.”

Joel Eidsath -- jeidsath@gmail.com

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Re: Doric forms?

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I'll look into that definitely. I looks fascinating, though there are many pitfalls. Without reading the whole article (yet), talking about "Greeks around 4,500 years ago" seems to illustrate perfectly the sort problem we have when experts venture out of their own field. Geneticians simply don't have a clue about Indo-European studies, most of the time. This doesn't mean this isn't great, it just means that I'm wary.

I recall someone telling me many years ago that Nature is the yellow press of scientific papers (she'd actually published in Nature herself, many years even before that). It's a very high quality paper of course, but the point is that they like stuff that makes big headlines.

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