Thomas Wier
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Linguist & Caucasologist • Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi • Research languages of the Caucasus, the Tonkawa language • Author of 'Tonkawa Texts' • Weekly Georgian Etymologies Academic research: https://freeuni.academia.edu/ThomasWier
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Have you explained that “warm” and “hot” are just relative and imprecise substitutes for measuring the exact average kinetic energy of a substance’s particles?
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it's surprisingly hard to explain to a 4yo why something going from hot to warm isn't "getting warmer"
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Found in a shop in Ireland yesterday.
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Word family: "skunk" and "Chicago" from Algonquian www.aidanem.com/word-family-...
Show PostNote that the people and language "Miami" ("Myaamia") is a Great Lakes region language, and is completely unrelated to Miami, FL, which is named for the Lake Miami (<Mayaimi>: "big water" in an extinct Florida language possibly related to Tunica)
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