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I know what you mean, but I find my theory to be just as plausible. After all, physicists are convinced of the existence of many dimension, and they need to be responsible for something.
 
Oh, I see.
But how can they be sure of the existence of other dimensions if there is no proof of that? I mean, you can't just say there is a place where we all exist but as a different person, for instance, and expect people to believe you just because you happen to be a scientist.
 
Here we're venturing into areas which I don't really know very much about. Those dimensions I described really are my idea - I just basically took the possibility of multiple dimensions and filled them up with random ideas of my own making. ;)
 
I'd like to think there was some logical explanation, like the observational powers Wasted talks about - but not that amazing, and it definitely wasn't done consciously.

Perun, I'll have to re-read you theory in the morning to get my head around it. Either way, I'm very puzzled as this definitely happened and I can come up with no explanation for it. Audrey isn't even a name I come across often - the last time was probably an Audrey Hepburn film I watched about two months ago.
 
national acrobat said:
I'd like to think there was some logical explanation, like the observational powers Wasted talks about - but not that amazing, and it definitely wasn't done consciously.

Perun, I'll have to re-read you theory in the morning to get my head around it. Either way, I'm very puzzled as this definitely happened and I can come up with no explanation for it. Audrey isn't even a name I come across often - the last time was probably an Audrey Hepburn film I watched about two months ago.
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My idea on this is that it's just a really crazy coincidence. Thing is, we don't count the hundreds and thousands of times our very random every-day predictions go wrong. We only notice the singular events when they are actually right.
 
Ariana said:
Isn't it like perfective aspect of verbs?
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I'll be damned, you are one of about three or four people I know who know what an aorist is. Let me guess, you learned ancient Greek?

But do you have an idea on the "athematic" part?
 
Never studied Greek, actually. But we had very extensive classes on general linguistics.
I don't know what "athematic" stands for but departing from the logic that it has to do with the from of the verbs, I'd guess it has to do with their morphology? Wrong? Well, the "root" part is pretty telltale.
 
I'd say you're pretty much spot on. I don't know if my memory is entirely correct here, but I think a thematic root is one which ends with a vowel, an athematic one ends on a consonant. Then again, this may be true for certain languages, but not for all. It may also depend on what vowel or consonant it is, whether the vowel is allophonic or not, etc.

I only remember how I stumbled on that "athematic root aorist" in a grammar book once and how proud I was when I realised that I knew what that is. :D
 
We've never mentioned those terms, so I guess they do not apply for all languages, indeed. Thanks for the explanation.
 
You're welcome. It's the sort of stuff that agonises my life at the moment.
 
Well, I'm having to deal a lot with philology, which is not exactly my favourite subject. I consider myself more of a historian, but to properly deal with ancient source material, I obviously have to deal with ancient languages, and a lot of them. Especially because in my subject, hardly a reading is undisputed, and there are cases in which a single word can alter the meaning of the entire source - so at least I have to be able to follow the philologist's arguments and see where they are coming from. I'm really only writing my MA dissertation right now, but my professor thinks that I'm a bright spark, and I have to live up to that.
 
I'm trying to write an historical commentary for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabatak_inscription. Unfortunately, that article is pretty crappy, and the "full text" given there is based on a completely fallacious reading; but it still gives you an idea what it's about. So far, I've written 14 pages on one aspect of that inscription, and my professor loved it. He was even impressed by my language skills. It was the first academic text I've ever written in English, and my prof is an Irishman. He thought I was a native speaker.
 
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