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February 10, 2010 12:32 PM |
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Originally Posted by Perikles
(Post 71846)
By the way, the Indo-European proto-language is the origin of most languages in Europe and India (duh!) not the world. Nor is it the basis of Hungarian, Turkish, Finnish nor Basque. :)
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Finnish? Really? Finnish isn't related to Danish/Norwegian/Swedish/Icelandic?
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Originally Posted by CarmenCarmona
(Post 71908)
However, they are mere hypothesis, ain't they?
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Originally Posted by CarmenCarmona
(Post 71915)
I didn't know it because in Spanish those type of words don't vary: Crisis, tesis, etc. and I thought that applied to English as well..
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Singular: hypothesis, parenthesis, crisis, t hesis, etc.
Plural: hypotheses, parentheses, crises, theses
(P.S. I've been lurking in this thread. It's very interesting!)
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