• @khalid_salad
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      232 months ago

      Everybody knows that all languages derive from ULTRAFRENCH.

    • @acausal_masochist
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      182 months ago

      You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

        • @bitofhope
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          202 months ago

          PIE was just people wanting to eventually speak Greek but they had yet to figure out how, so they were just working backwards little by little trying to make their language more like Greek.

    • @V0ldek
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      like people thinking that all languages come from turkish

      This is amazing, I fucking love this. People striving to create the lowest stakes possible conspiracy. I struggle to think of something that would have less impact on the world no matter it were true or false.

      A shadowy cabal of powerful people guarding the secret of “actually, it was [rolls die] Turkish people who invented [rolls another die] language!”

        • @V0ldek
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          62 months ago

          Okay sure, but this is comical. A Turkish nationalist will be a Turkish nationalist with or without this idea. It’s the equivalent of saying that Turkish people have naturally less odorous farts and thus TURKIYE SHALL RULE THE WORLD!

          • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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            132 months ago

            okay but this idea was kinda central to modern turkish nationalism. see, kurds are not distinct people, they just speak turkish but wrong (heard anything similar recently?) also this is part of the reason why standard turkish is actual common language in turkey

            • flere-imsaho
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              31 month ago

              oh, it’s like russia’s idea of ukrainian and belarussian. fucking orphans of the empires…

      • @Soyweiser
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        92 months ago

        Funny you say that, as it was the Dutch who invented dice.