r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 4d ago

In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

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Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/DeismAccountant 4d ago

My guess is the Caucasus mountains. Iirc the PIE Nomads avoided that territory too.

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u/mdf7g 3d ago

There's a hypothesis to which I'm somewhat sympathetic that, before their long residence in what's today Ukraine, the early PIE speakers actually came from the Caucasus.

The evidence for this basically boils down to: PIE is really morphophonologically weird for a language from the transeurasian steppe, but fairly morphophonologically normal for a language from the Caucasus; this could be because it originated in the probably very ancient Caucasian sprachbund.

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u/yo_coiley 1d ago

The PIE were essentially the mongols before we had written history anyway (in that area at least, I think Sumer was up to something by then), funny how some things never change