#i'm not necessarily making a moral judgment or thinking i'm ontologically correct. i try not to take anything on here that seriously yk

[iscariotapologist]

Maybe I'm just unfamiliar with Hildegard's lingua ignota and I'm only surfacely familiar with conlang, but would you be down to expand on what's upsetting about seeing it referred to as an early conlang? At least to my limited understanding, any intentionally developed language would fall under the general umbrella of "constructed language," so I don't see the similarity to people reducing the divine comedy to fanfiction

i just think it's somewhat reductive and contributes to the trend of tumblr taking historical things (such as the divine comedy or alexander hamilton or the lingua ignota etc.) and exploiting them for the bit, i guess you could say woobifying or fandomizing them. i think this tendency contributes to the lack of critical thinking and nuance on the internet by reducing things like that to their joke potential and it annoys me. not that this phenomenon is unique to tumblr of course, or that i think it's always inappropriate to make jokes, but we should be careful when doing so not to sacrifice all the depth and significance to make things #relatable you know?

however, at the end of the day it's just annoying to me personally and it's just a tumblr post and none of that is like a problem that affects me in real life lol. also i will say that my understanding of the term "conlang" was that it specifically referred to invented languages for fictional universes (which i have nothing against i just think it's silly to use fandom terms for real life things for the previously mentioned reasons) and upon looking i realize that is not the actual definition, so i will apologize for my ignorance there.