Just watched the movie Prometheus.
A robot was being taught PIE and was reciting Schleicher’s fable.

That is all.

OP Tipping - 13 January 2013 12:29 AM

Just watched the movie Prometheus.
A robot was being taught PIE and was reciting Schleicher’s fable.

That is all.

Huh. I had had the impression that there was a lot more in the movie than that.  Aliens and spaceships and stuff.

Goes to show how misleading those trailers can be, I guess.

Yes, they did have a bit of padding to stretch it to 2 hours.

Pie will often put on a bit of padding and stretch things.

Just sayin’.

sobiest - 13 January 2013 07:15 PM

Pie will often put on a bit of padding and stretch things.

Just sayin’.

Shepherd’s pie, presumably, if Schleicher’s fable was involved.

(golf clap)

Remember when bartleby.com used to host a kick-arse PIE-root volume?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.

BTW is it actually impossible to get an English language version of Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, or just really really really difficult?

My understanding is that the online American Heritage Dictionary will, in the near future, be posting it’s appendix on IE roots to the web. IIRC, that was the one hosted on Bartleby.

OP Tipping - 16 January 2013 07:21 AM

BTW is it actually impossible to get an English language version of Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, or just really really really difficult?

This site links to an English version.

Aldi’s URL is missing the colon after “http”. (Considered making surgical joke, decided it was too close to lunch.)

the colon is usually several hours away from lunch…

Is “from colon to lunch” the new “from arsehole to breakfast”?