#(I'm pretty sure it's because Sanskrit has the same noun cases as Proto-Indo-European probably did
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My favorite quirk of old linguistics / philology texts* is the ones that are like "actually yes there IS a perfect language against which we were can compare and measure all other languages. It's Sanskrit."
Why were all these old English and German dudes obsessed with Sanskrit.
#*I read a lot of these because modern academics do not get tenure by writing books about gothic phonology#(I'm pretty sure it's because Sanskrit has the same noun cases as Proto-Indo-European probably did#so they were all like Yes this is the Objectively Correct Case System)#languages#linguistics#funny
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