Late to the party here, and CalMeacham has already clarified the iconography of the vajra or thunderbolt of Indra, but I gotta nitpick: Finnish is not an Indo-European language, being in the very distinct Finno-Ugric language family, along with Estonian, Hungarian, and others.
The hypothesis AFAICT is that Proto-Finno-Uralic *vaśara was a borrowing of Proto-Indo-Iranian * wáȷ́ras, descended from the Proto-IE root **weg’*. So yeah, Finnish vasara and Sanskrit vajra are linguistically cognate and share the same root, but that’s because vasara is descended from an Indo-European loanword.
Other than this sort of “adoption”, there is AFAIK no attested common ancestry of any Finno-Ugric and Indo-European words. Although some linguists espouse the controversial hypothesis of an “Indo-Uralic” family that would contain a common ancestor of all of them.
Apologies for continuing a digression on another subject that is neither Republican nor stupid!
Other? Did you mean ‘lies from the Pit of Hell’ and ‘worshiping Satan’?
And that goes double for those folks that think the Old Testament doesn’t have a sequel.
swoon Talk more about Finno-Ugric! Not since my diachronic and synchronic linguistics class using Raimo Anttila’s text with Finnish examples have I been this happy!
Where is this 60% in the scheme of things? A single data point floating in a XKCD comic? Is 60% good? Or better? Or worse? A trend? Seems like a ketchup splat on a wall.
Some good news after a Republican tried to shaft the players.
In a rare display of bipartisanship, a clause will be inserted in legislation to allow current players in the service academies to defer service and play right away (only applies to a few) if drafted or make a team in training camp. A Republican had eliminated this opportunity with a deep footnote in a recent bill.
Well, I was trying to imply there are two sequels. The Koran obviously isn’t in canon, but the Book of Mormon might be these days (or at least tolerated fan-fic)
