A Linguist's Coping Mechanism in the AI Age: More Proto-Indo-European Papers
begusgasper · x · 2026-09-18
A Berkeley linguist jokes his coping mechanism in the AI age is writing more Proto-Indo-European papers, presenting research arguing Pre-PIE had a rule whereby heavy syllables attracted stress from root to ending.
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