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afternoonaetheling · 11 months ago

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My understanding of English is that it’s such a fun and weird language because it’s been repeatedly smashed into other languages such as French and Norse due to the Norman Conquest and the Danelaw, and it’s at a point where most of its vocab is from loanwords and it barely has grammatical gender (for the better).

Anyways, the point is that I need a civilization of native Ithkuil speakers to invade England. It would be very cool and fun; I promise.

@bolt76 agrees with me.

#conlang #english #war is bad #linguistics #linguist humor #and so is conquest #but they can have linguistically interesting results #aside from when conquerors ban or eradicate native langs #that can fuck right off #I wish I could speak Irish #it would not be useful #but I would feel more connected to the less imperialistically problematic half of my ancestry #also #all of the Indigenous languages of America/Turtle Island that I’ve come across at all have seemed rad as fuck #animacy distinctions are so cool #linguistics class is the main university thing I’m excited for #alongside getting to take an Old English class in second year #I want Beowulf to make sense

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