If money was important to me, I would have abandoned the US 30 years ago. Far easier to get rich somewhere else. Reagan all but killed the American Dream. Our current American version of capitalist society is designed to widen the gap between the ultra-rich and the ultra-poor, and will eventually eliminate the middle class altogether.
Amusing bit of trivia: JRR Tolkien (a linguist in addition to his more famous author gig) mentioned that he based the Elvish language, in Lord of the Rings, on Finnish. Finnish really does have a very different sound from other Indo-European languages.
I am going to do a thread merge here and anger the local linguistic devil - and notice that in Swahili the nickname of the Boeing 747 is used for "hello".
I'm no linguistic god, but I know ancient Greek and Sanskrit are both Indo-European, so it wouldn't be surprising if they had a lot of similarities since they have related roots.
That is cool trivia! I believe it's closest relative is some dialect in Eastern Turkey. No one can figure out how it got there.
Local linguistic god, here. The reason that Finnish sounds so different, is because it is not Indo-European. Finnish is part of different language families depending on who you ask. The most commonly accepted family is Uralic. Although, there is a large part of linguistic typologists that put it into the Ural-Altaic family, which includes Finnish, Mongolian, Turkish, Korean and Japanese, among many other languages spreading across central and east Asia. Finnish is the oddest member, geographically speaking.
Yeah, I typed what I meant badly. I didn't mean to say Finnish was Indo-European (I actually had no idea what family it was part of, but didn't think Indo-European). I meant to say it doesn't sound like the Indo-European languages many of us are used to. I've read that Finnish and Japanese have a lot of similarities, which is really very odd. Do you know how such far-flung cultures, geographically-speaking, could come to have languages that share so much in common?
It's a point of debate among historical linguists. Some say there was a Proto-Altaic language that existed in prehistory which spread from Finland to Mongolia, and others say that Finnish only "looks" like an Altaic language and that it's only pure coincidence. I'm no language typologist, so I don't really have an informed opinion on the subject.
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