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hushimstressed · 10 months

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I’m always on the verge of info dumping about languages btw, like i love languages so much PLEASE let me tell you about how cool dual is (basically plural but only for things that are two) and how proto indo-European probably used it and pretty much all languages that descend from it dropped it all together !!!!! HOWEVER English has retained a small bit of it from the use of “both”!

#dual is cool and OFCOURSE it’d be used #we have two eyes two arms two legs #now we just use singular and plural #chatter #im not an expert im just very autistic #and I have friends who are very into linguistics

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