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Laura Spinney

@lfspinney

Novelist, science journalist and author of PALE RIDER and PROTO

Ile-de-France, France Katılım Temmuz 2012
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William Collins Books
William Collins Books@WmCollinsBooks·
One ancient language transformed our world. This is its story. PROTO by @lfspinney is out in paperback today! 'The fascinating story of the ancient words that survive in the mouths of billions of speakers today.' The Guardian
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Jorrit Kelder@Jorrit_Kelder·
A lovely morning filming with @ancientstristan for an upcoming @HistoryHit documentary on the Mycenaean World on the Acropolis: wonderful to watch sunrise over the “Strong House of Erechteus”.
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Editorial Crítica
Editorial Crítica@Ed_Critica·
¡📣Novedad📚!  'Lengua madre', de Laura Spinney [@lfspinney], recorre continentes y milenios para seguir la odisea indoeuropea. El resultado es una historia de la humanidad contada desde el hilo invisible del lenguaje ⬇️⬇️ planetadelibros.com/libro-lengua-m…
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Dr Garry Aslanyan@GarryAslanyan·
Chat with @lfspinney explores her 2 books, bringing disease, history, language & geography. 👉 tdr.who.int/global-health-… Nerd epilogue: I write in Armenian, a standalone branch of the Indo‑Euro family: Իմ հետևորդներ, ովքեր կարդում են հայերեն, այս նախադասությունը ձեզ համար է։
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Thomas H Bak@thbaketal·
The moment I have been waiting for decades... Signing the professorial roll @ University of Edinburgh, originally a written oath not to teach anything contrary to the Holy Scriptures & the Church of Scotland. Nice to be in the company of Joseph Lister, though not David Hume...)
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Laura Spinney@lfspinney·
@DrFrancisYoung @HarperCollins Thank you. I take on board what you say about mythology, nevertheless people don't seem to stop trying... I'm interested in the fact that some linguists eg @riccginevra argue that if you do attempt it, you must start from the language.
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Laura Spinney@lfspinney·
@cobbaltt @kaeshour Thank you. That's exactly right. And in the book I wrote I was more precise than in a phone interview where time was short. Even so, the labels don't capture the fluid reality.
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Gopalakrishnan R@cobbaltt·
@kaeshour @lfspinney This is a matter of labels, not of the language itself. I suppose you'd rather that she had said that "a language that came to be called Sanskrit was brought by immigrants". I agree that I prefer this framing but it doesn't make a difference to the larger point.
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@lfspinney is clearly mistaken. Let’s put it this way — was English ever spoken in what’s now Germany or Denmark? Did the Saxons and Jutes bring “English” with them to the Isles? Or did their W Germanic dialects transformed into Old English of Ælfred within England?
Sushant Singh@SushantSin

"The weight of the evid­ence is behind the the­ory that Sanskrit came with immig­rants who we know for sure came into India via the north­w­est corner, per­haps via the Khy­ber Pass, like so many later immig­rants, around 1600 BCE or a little earlier." @lfspinney to @SobhanaNair

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Laura Spinney@lfspinney·
@kaeshour Your confidence is impressive. India didn't exist 4,000 years ago, and Sanskrit was spoken long before it was attested.
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@lfspinney This statement that Sanskrit came with immigrants is plain wrong. As silly as saying Romans brought French into France. Sanskrit is the label of Indo-Iranian *only* attested in the Indian subcontinent. It is a local stage of evolution sharing areal features like retroflexes.
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Je m'appelle kapil@kapil_harwani·
@lfspinney Salut! Looking forward to attend your session On 15 Jan. at 1 PM at JLF'26. <"Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global"> À bientôt! :)
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Laura Spinney@lfspinney·
The horse cemetery at Tsarskoye Selo has been restored and is now open to visitors. If only there wasn't a war on we could all go and marvel at the ancient - and modern - Eurasian custom of burying your trusty steed shorturl.at/Cflyh #PROTO
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NYAS
NYAS@NYASciences·
How do pandemics, language, and identity intersect? Science journalist Laura Spinney (@lfspinney) joins Nick Dirks (@NickDirks) on the latest Shaping Science episode to explore the 1918 flu, language origins, and how crisis shapes society. Listen now: nyas.org/ideas-insights…
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