Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by rrr_oh_man on Sunday October 22, 2023 @02:01PM
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Fun fact: In German the words for knowledge ('Wissen') and wit/joke ('Witz') share the same root.
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It's fun, and they share the two first letters but it's not a fact:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wissen#German
From Middle High German and Old High German wizzan, from Proto-West Germanic witan, from Proto-Germanic witaną, from Proto-Indo-European wóyde (“to see, to know”).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Witz#Etymology
From Middle High German witz, from Old High German wizzi, from Proto-West Germanic witi, from Proto-Germanic witją from Proto-Indo-European weyd- (“see, know”).
Cognate to English wit, archaic Dutch wit, akin to Old Saxon giwit.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by poorlyknit on Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:46PM
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Then you click on wóyde and see that it's the
> Root stative of the root *weyd-.
:)