Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "The Forefathers of Estonians" video.

  1. No, you're not that great.
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  2. Quite often "Eastern Europe" is used with the meaning "the former Eastern Bloc".
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  3. If they're identical twins, then they share parents who are common ancestors for both of their descendants. Therefore that possibility should only make the result on common patrilinear or matrilinear ancestor off by one generation at most.
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  4. Well, it (probably) isn't since he's apparently Estonian not Russian.
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  5.  @Levon_RnD : Really? How can you tell?
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  6.  @Levon_RnD : OK. I was just curious about what specifically in his pronunciation makes it sound Russian, because phonetics is interesting.
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  7.  @Levon_RnD : Hmm, I checked the Wikipedia page on Estonian phonology and it says that Estonian also has palatalized version of all alveolar consonants in the language (except the trill) though it doesn't have the [vʲ] in "soviet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_phonology#Consonants
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