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Linguistics (mander.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

ITT we fight against the evil descriptivist windmills

[-] ggppjj@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Learned this a while ago, from an excellent YA writer:

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 months ago

memory unlocked

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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 months ago

While I get the point they’re making, I have a counterargument:

Ngqnund urnidng bptgx durunbde druxng.

What, you didn’t understand that? Are you dissing be just because you didn’t bother to learn new words?

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Show me two people who can speak to each other like that, and sure. And if they want to say I'm behind the times because I didn't learn their lingo, then that's fine and valid, too. There are two of them, what do I care their opinion on my linguistic ability?

As more people start to use these words, though, not being able to understand them does me harm. And at that point, the natural conclusion will be that I learn and, in some cases, adopt the new lingo. It's the only real way it CAN go - what incentive do they have to not use their lingo? Others understand them fine.

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A Elbereth Gilthoniel,

silivren penna míriel

o mendel aglar elenath!

Na-chaered palan-díriel

o galadhremmin ennorath,

Fanuilos, le linnathon

nef aear, sí nef aearon!

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

When you read texts of an ancient language than span several centuries, and the language itself stays the same, it's a strong indicator the language was no longer spoken.

Living languages always change. Only dead languages stay the same.