Verner's Law, Part 1 of 3

[bea4anrq12]

I noticed that the second headline on the French paper "Le citoyen" at 3:38 reads "Juif Blâmé" (Jews Blamed). Darn, not AGAIN!

[ShaxAMV]

funny and informative, lol amazing

[fofof27]

that's amazing video!!!!!

thank U lot

[dpaszak]

PLEASE HELP ME FIND THE BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR YOUR VIDEOS. WHERE DO I LOOK?

[AvuncularFeldspar]

@dpaszak

Which music specifically? They clips are from varied sources.

[dpaszak]

@AvuncularFeldspar The background music that begins in the part 1 of Verner's Law video.

[AvuncularFeldspar]

@dpaszak The first one's called Star Fire, by Bob Thompson.

[EllaVaga]

You should do this for complimentary and contrasting distributions as well because sadly my professor is terrible at explaining all of this stuff clearly.

[tamfang]

I wonder what the Sanskrit word ("taṭaphatvamiti"?) means.

[dpaszak]

Where do you get the background music for this??? What is it?

[Kimberlyyyyyful]

This is very helpful.

[BlaiseLiddellTale]

Great!

I'll try to show this on my diachronic English class tomorrow xD thanks!

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Let me know how it goes!

[Sabu632]

i'm pretty sure the entirety of higher education should be presented exactly like this.

[kittensandtheglitz]

This is the most awesome thing ever!

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Heck. :)

[LordoftheHornets]

one thing missing form these videos, "Hi I'm Troy McClure, you might remember me from such films as ?" rofl

[duiff]

(cont'd) Worth mentioning also that Calvert Watkin's "American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots" lists a whole bunch of English words ultimately derived from *(s)keu-, but not "house" (nor does it occur anywhere else in this work). I don't know what misgivings he had about mentioning it.

Latin "casa" doesn't have a clear etymology either, it's probably just a loan from a substrate language.

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Hmm. All interesting stuff. I remember being a tad unsure about "house" when I made the film, but for some reason I went forward anyway. I probably should have taken the extra five minutes. As far as the Honorable Mr. Watkins is concerned, if he would be agreeable, I would gladly settle the house/casa matter via Rock, Paper, Scissors.

[duiff]

Just found this series, great stuff! It would be great if it could get more people into comparative linguistics.

One thing that troubles me is the use of "house - casa" to illustrate the connection k~χ(h). While the h- in AHD/OE "hūs" may very well come from a k- (possibly from PIE *(s)keu- with s-mobile ("to cover"), as in sky, scum, ob-scu-re, but also hose, hoard, hut etc.), I don't see how casa is related to it, and I find no mention of this link in any of the works I have consulted.

[MaBu888]

So, hwi nat ic teall thi ond eow eall of thaet. (I don't know the language I'm imitating now, BTW)

[CeilingofStars]

Nice! I love the illustrations.

I wish I could learn everything this way. :)

[TheSchwarzeRitter]

What does "complete and less degraded" mean, the comparison between Sanskrit to Latin and Greek?

And why was Grimm's Law called a Law if it has shortcomings?

[MaBu888]

It seems to be a relative term, not too subjectve and not too objectve as a term. He proably meant that he sensed a common origin and a common pattern from which these languages came from, but couldn't articulate what he found.

[Bjovolf]

That was just Jones' somewhat romantic look at things. He could see some structures that seemed to have been lost or partially eraded in Greek & Latin, so he thought of Sanskrit as being the more complete language - in the sense of being closer to the common source language.

A "law" because it explained a lot of patterns, but there were some strange, unexplained exceptions - so more like a

rule of thumb really that you should use with caution.

[Bjovolf]

"eroded", that is Doh!

[NiallBecc]

Awesome video!

[ElvenDane]

Thank you very much - excellent.

Jeg [yaigh , ~ I ) vil smile hele (whole)

Søndag [ -day(gh)] af din ( ~ thine ) fine humor.

[Morbidemind]

I have an exam about language change comming up, this is great thank you.

[ElvenDane]

So did you pass your exam ? LOL

[Morbidemind]

Yes I was one of the 28 students out of 200 who passed their exam.

[ElvenDane]

Great! - well done ;-)

Well, I just had to ask, didn't I ? LOL

[sclon32]

It's very helpful and funny. Linguistic freaks must swallow their tongues! Thank you!

[ElvenDane]

Nah, why would they ? :-)

This is great humour and even informative at the same time.

[axecollector]

Mr. Ferndale would be so proud (and so confused)!

[dpaszak]

This is awesome. I wanted to something similar with theoretical mathematics concepts...but never found the time or motivation or cooperation from others.

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Thanks so much! Glad ya like!

[ElvenDane]

Yes, precisely. You would think that the potential audience would be huge. These things (math) can actually be explained in a straight forward and even exciting & amusing manner that will make students see the light much faster than with the usual bombardement of seemingly incomprehensible formuale and strange expressions that are never explained

properly in an intuitive way. Also it does not have to be a deep dark secret that a lot of theoretical math has important pract. applications.

[dpaszak]

Here, here.

[AvuncularFeldspar]

I am happy to see discussion about my little film. I would only add that, although I had fun making it and am very glad it helped people understand some aspects of VL, I also do not think teachers should feel that they have to rely on such things to get people to learn material. I think clarity and personal interest on the part of the instructor are the keys (along with lots of review).

[Bjovolf]

No, of course not, but it IS a great appetizer & overview. If I hadn't known any of this before, I would def. have become captivated by seeing these great, informative AND entertaining videos.

When learning English as a Dane it's

very overwhelming and extremely helpful to discover the numerous and deep similarities & parallel patterns in basic vocabulary and grammar. I was always very puzzled by this and later on began to study it and the deeper roots you describe here (hobby).

[Bjovolf]

( ElvenDane here - my normal account has been temporarily suspended due to a music video that some "owner" complained about, even though I did comply with all the requests they made :-) ).

Yes, of course those things are important too, but having a great sense of humour and not taking yourself too seriously has never hurt anyone, I think. This is really good for making people curious and introducing them to a topic that most would think a bit dry at a first glance.

Good job ;o)

[cozicozi111]

u've got a grat idea!! they're just so clear in the explaination and so funny that it's a pleasure to look at them..and start studying such things :-)

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Well, thanks! That maketh me smile!

[markcamos]

Gosh, Mr. Feldspar, I guess philology isn't really clunky at all: it's phun!

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Indeed it is, Mark! It's what separates us from the lower primates!

[markcamos]

Thanks for straightening me out! I thought it was mostly our height -- and maybe that we sometimes wear amusing hats at parties and sporting events. Who knew?!

[ElvenDane]

No phun intended, as they say LOL

[sunsetmorpho]

Simply brilliant. Such things make philological freaks go crazy.

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Huzzah! Great to hear!

[79butters]

simpatico !

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Gracias!

[79butters]

You're welcome, but I'm Italian. Our German philology professor told us about your videos this morning, they're very useful !

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Whoops - grazie! I'm very glad you found these helpful. I can't BELIEVE how many people have viewed these films already!

[1robertelee]

This is fantastic. Kudos!

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Thanks!