one day someone's going to uncover some fucking tablet with a grocery list or a receipt written in proto-indo-european and all the linguists everywhere are going to go apeshit simultaneously
one day someone's going to uncover some fucking tablet with a grocery list or a receipt written in proto-indo-european and all the linguists everywhere are going to go apeshit simultaneously
most likely not, because the proto-indo-europeans were a nomadic people of the steppe (in all likelihood) and didn't live in cities, and therefore didn't really have organized commerce or the potential or need to invent writing, which is how it's happened pretty much everywhere we've noticed! maybe some pictograms carved into the only tree in uzbekistan
imagine only going to the store once or twice a year and forgetting something though
, nomads have the most reason to invent shopping lists
i want the linguist nerds to reconstruct the PIE word for Pie, the food.
it's just a list of everything they are no longer allowed to do with their Mech