Perfumed Panthers – a fragment
Yoke, yoga, con-jugal – the ”Chechen connection“
Tampering with facts: how Marco Polo lied to us
Grinning Creature visits Erdogan: a short screenplay
Sǫʼ Baaʼ – Star Wars in Navajo, with a reflection on capitalist languages…

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Two Muslim Mayors in the EU: Sadiq Khan (London)/Ahmed Aboutaleb (Rotterdam)
Address to a haggis – Imn drobului (Robert Burns)
Learning languages by the colonial stick
The astounding vanishing act of Stavros Lambrinidis
On Macedonians, “noble” origins, and how Alexander the Great is a Muslim figure
Indo-European and Nakho-Daghestani languages: a short typological comparison
Chechen women in a trance / Transa femeilor cecene
Anatolia and the Caucasus: the cradle of the Indo-Europeans
A structural comparison of Etruscan with the Kartvelian languages
Crusing the brothels in Cumania (murdar qatın = dirty Madams, or rough guides as we like them)…
The danger of amateur linguistics (Scaligero’s Gypsy dictionary)
Bought by China – how Chinese companies are creeping into the economy of Western countries by proxy…
Călărind Logosul, sau “traducerea ca adaptare (5): W. Blake: Tigre, tigre lucitoriu / The Tyger
Smoove & Turrell: when real music becomes too expensive
Every movie is a political discourse – interview with Costa Gavras
Perfumed panthers and golden teeth : the backstage of a scoop
St. Ambrose, the non-whisperer (December 7)
When your tits go up your throat.. one of the stupidest translations ever
The Black Page (on which we are printed)
Weasels ripped my flesh…
अ अ : Eugène Ionesco as a Yogi: ”La philologie mène au crime…”
It‘s proved scientifically: I have an IQ of 60
“God” is dead – how to avoid censorship and publish the unpublishable
Why the Babel Tower was impossible to build (Athanasius Kircher gets clever and cleverer)
Hail to the Vegetal Lamb !
Les Tsiganes et le jazz dans le Finnegans Wake
I was a Basque in my previous lives
Basking in the ignorance of the symbol: T. S. Eliot and the Tarot cards
“A vulva cannot harm my virtue !…”
Build me a woman (on a lethal kind of DIY)
Agalmatorhemaphobia: the fear of speaking statues
“A pain that forces one to love more, but to like less”
Baburleaks at the court of the Grand Mughal (the crude language of real diplomacy)
Roasted-hearted melody : The Sufi poets’ obssession with kebab
Traducerea ca adaptare (II): Winter is icummen in… (Ezra Pound)
”Io-s mă‘ta, nu tac‘tu“ – Ezra Pound : Canto XII
Forks, or the Power of Logic
Surviving the glory of Eurovision. A portrait of Sandra Kim…
“SHAPKAS”… ON THE RUSSIANS’ SUPERIORITY COMPLEX…
Slaves in Utopia !!!…
Erewhon, where illness and poverty are criminal offences…
“She worked with all her three holes – Procopius‘s portrait of Saint Theodora…
“The mediocre man is a monster” – When Pasolini met Orson Welles.
Between woman and God – only a difference of breath, or : God is a pharyngeal woman…
J’interpelle le quotidien : a lesson for the lazy and the uncreative (yes, you out there)…
Descartes‘s methodical stove (Soba metodicã a lui Descartes)…
God is bald !… A British alchemist, Leonardo Sciascia, and the secret that Mussolini didn’t want to share…
And the Flood killed all the fishes…
The Prayer Rug (a treatment)
A Study in Hybris – The Ivo Sanader case, or: How do charismatic politicians become corrupt in Eastern Europe?

A view of a bust portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, 14 March 2015. Russian Cossacks are going to install a bronze bust of Vladimir Putin on the territory of the current ethnic farm Museum near St. Petersburg in May. The bronze bust depicting Vladimir Putin will embody the image of the Roman Emperor. EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV
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Domnule Alexe,
Am citit cu mult interes articolul dvs.
Fara sa fiu lingvist, sunt interesata de lingvistica si am citit o serie de articole despre limba proto-indo-europeana, precum si despre zonele unde se presupune ca se gaseau vorbitorii ei.
Am retinut ca exista doua mari ipoteze: ipoteza Kurgan si ipoteza Anatolia. Inteleg ca dvs. inclinati spre prima ipoteza si aduceti argumente lingvistice in acest sens. Articolele pe care le-am parcurs eu se refereau mai ales la dovezile arheologice, dar si la argumente lingvistice si genetice.
In august 2012, BBC a publicat un articol preluat din revista Science (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19368988), care, in baza unor argumente furnizate prin utilizarea analizei filogenetice (o tehnica proprie biologiei), sustinea intaietatea ipotezei Anatolia fata de ipoteza Kurgan.
As fi vrut sa stiu ce parere aveti despre acest articol din Science.
Cu multumiri,
Clara Simionescu
ipoteza anatoliana are multe hibe,comparativ cu kurganul
-roata nu era inventata
-toate limbile din zona erau non-indo-europene
-metalul nu era folosit pe scara larga etc