• @[email protected]
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        189 months ago

        Enlightened linguists teach their children languages in chronological order, starting with sumerian and by the age of 7 finally reaching proto-indo-european and finally starting to be able to somewhat communicate with the rest of the world.

    • @shneancy
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      249 months ago

      even better when you know that we don’t even know how it sounded. Ancient Egyptians didn’t bother to write down vowels, all we have today is educated guesses as to how some words could’ve been pronounced

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      49 months ago

      Must be in the TV series where everyone speaks English for some reason.