TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years
TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintess...
it's also yummy
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This is cool enough that all Indo-European languages should start calling salmon Lox again.
With the right strategy and current technology, we should be able to evolve all current Indo-European languages back to a singular language over a thousand years or so. That would unite half the world in language.
A highly noble goal. We could call it, the Lox plan.
German already calls it Lachs.
And in Swedish it's Lax. Pretty sure it's Laks in Norwegian as well.
Indeed it is! And lax in Icelandic as well, which remains the closest to old Norse.
It's just the British trying to be fancy with their salmon.
And Danish too (laks)
Excellent. One step in the right direction. Good guy Germany.