Wednesday, September 26, 2007

To all meins juggalaudim jah juggaledim

Upon my studies of the Gothic language (yes, this is what I do in college), I came across the following word:

juggaláuþs: 'young man'

Something caught my eye...something very familiar. Being at work with nothing better to do, I separated the word into its two roots, and looked in other Germanic languages - Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old English - all having similar words with the same meaning, up to modern German, where I found 'jungleute', meaning 'young people'. Figuring in the phonetic differences for the languages, I figured the Proto-Indo-European root for each word to be something like jugg and lod, respectively.

If you were a young person living in Eastern Europe anywhere from 5000 to 10000 years ago, you may have been a juggalo.

Violent J., Shaggy 2 Dope, I owe you gentlemen an apology. I underestimated you.


1 comment:

aj said...

That doesn't make them any less retarded.