Comments by "Karen Phinney" (@karphin1) on "Tracing English as far back as possible" video.

  1. Thank you, “tak”, Rob! I have always been fascinated by the roots of language and have some books on the subject. Also had a friend who was a retired linguistics professor, we had great discussions on it all. He spoke several Languages, like you, I only speak French and studied Latin in high school (Canada). Was always intrigued by the parallels in those two languages, and later with others. I recall one book I read suggested words like “water” could have a long ago common ancestor, even the Hittite word for water is similar, like “watar “ or something. Amazing. And aqua in Latin, eau in French, and other languages such as an African one, okka. So interesting! I often thought I should have been a linguist! Love your videos, always interesting.
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