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torontofetish · 4 months ago

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would nations forget their own languages as they go extinct? when the language is suppressed, do they stumble over words and mix up grammar and realize it just doesn't come as easy to them as it used to? do their native languages fade away and get replaced by new languages, languages of conquest and oppression and change? i wonder if they think about them sometimes, all those words they forgot, all those pieces of their culture and identity that got lost to time and violence and the all-encompassing oblivion of history.

#aph #hetalia #hws #still not used to this hws acronym. it looks wrong #anyway i was thinking about prussia and his german identity despite his baltic roots #the 400 year decline of the prussian language at the hands of the teutonic knights #everything he was replaced by something new and foreign and then even that is forgotten to time too #it's a ship of theseus if you think about it. at what point are they no longer the same thing?#well anyway whatever #mic check

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