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I haven’t yet met a Golden Retriever that I didn’t love. Yes, I know that they can be rambunctious and that one wag of the tail can sweep everything off the coffee table, but what joyous, smart, and happy dogs they are! (Sapphire Dream Photography licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0) Developed historically to be…
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The Eastern European Research Trip – Language!
Since about 2001, I’ve been studying a re-constructed language that is considered the mother tongue of most European languages. Linguists tell us that more than 400 languages have their roots in that ancient Indo-European tongue. You might enjoy seeing a map that puts that all into perspective: The dark green areas are countries in which…
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