Monday, March 29, 2010

Insomnia

Well well well... you might be saying, it has been a while. I have been pretty good enjoying this semester as much as possible. Love my Russian class. Speaking of Russian, i get to lead my section of conversation class in our song that we are going to sing for the Russian clubs concert, Really looking forward to that! Spanish is going well, I have a test Wednesday, and a composition due on Friday then on Monday of next week we have an oral test. Phonetics is Great, I just sit there and absorb as much as i can :) WE have no final in that class, (i only have 3 finals total). Communications....(BLAH) i really do not enjoy the class, i was excited though that i got a 'B' on my last speech (YAY). Philosophy is not bad, the materiel is a bit dry but doing okay so far.

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Have really had insomnia the last few days (nasty i know). That is really why i am writing now, cause i am tired but so tired that i cannot sleep.

HMMMM I wonder could I translate this little post in to both spanish and russian....... LET'S SEE! (Well just spanish, my russian is not that good yet and i don't want to embarrass myself.)

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Pues, se podría decir que no he escrito recientemente y es la verdad. Todos han sido normales y disfruto este semestre tanto como se puede. Me encanta la clase de rusa y también, conduciré una canción para el club de rusa. ¡¡Estoy emocionado!! Español es muy bien, tengo un examen en miércoles y una composición en viernes entonces en lunes de la próxima semana tengo un examen oral. Clase de fonética es muy bien, también. ¡Absorbo tanto como se puede, esta clase es fantástica! No tenemos un examen final en la clase de fonética y tengo solamente tres exámenes en total. La clase de comunicación, ¡Dios mío!, NO MEGUSTA. Quiero que mi profesora muera (espero que nadie lea esta sentencia). Yo recibí un B en mi oración. Filosofía no es mal, la material es aburrida.

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He tenido insomnio durante los últimos dos días. Esto es por qué estoy escribiendo ahora porque estoy cansado pero estoy tan cansado que no puede dormir.

Well guys have a good nighT!!!

Нафаня!


Thursday, March 4, 2010

The History of "You"

So I have been looking over the past few days about the evolution of the second person pronoun in indo-european languages. It is very interesting, the list below is just a few languages and their second person singular pronoun.

Russian - ты /tɨ/
Ukrainian - ти /tɪ/
Polish - ty /tɨ/
Sanskrit - tvam /tvɑm/
Hindi - तुम /t̪um/
French - tu /tu/
Spanish - tú /tu/
Italian - tu /tu/
Portuguese - tu /tu/
Latin - tu /tu/
A. Greek - σύ /su/
M. Greek - εσύ /ɛ(e)su/
German - du /du/
Dutch - jij /jeɪ/
M. English - you /ju/
Md. English - thou /θɑʊ/
O. English - þū /θu/
Romanian - tu /tu/
Swedish - du /du/
Norwegian - du /du/
Albanian - ti /ti/
Irish - tú /tu/
Welsh - ti /ti/
Hittite - zik /zik/ (in other cases Acc. /tuk/)

Very interesting (at least i think).

Two people have constructed proto-indo-european pronoun chart (remember we do not know what they actually are, these are just probable answers)
Beekes: *tuH - nominative
Sihler: *tī̆ (*tū̆) - nominative

Just something to think about :)

Nathan