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OMFG, I love LINaskflhasklahsfkhasfkhasf - LOVE! Linguistics. How the fudge popsicles did I forget that!!! I have noticed an awful homogeneous movement in the US when it comes to linguistics. The slang (terminology) might differ, but I think the internet spread a lot of frustrations and shame to the point that many people have opted for SoCal accents over their native spaces and everyone has started to sound like a slurry of shit. Which is really offensive, I know. But I wish we could keep regional dialects going for as long as they can go. I also know that class (and upwards mobility) tends to kill off dialects. And I think that’s because you have to speak a common “white tongue” and “middle class(+)” tongue to get anywhere in business and do relatively financially well. So I guess ultimately shame and capitalism are killing something I love. Which is probably the case across the board so…eh!
But let’s talk linguistics! They’re so freakin’ interesting.
(I also love reading, but it’s been kinda hit or miss lately.)
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Yooo, root languages, that’s a solid thing to trace. All anthropology in general is endlessly interesting. If you’ve got some good scraps online feel free to pass them this way. I love a good read =)!
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Ah, you freakin’ genius! This is some really good brain cheese here. Has me firing on all cylinders thinking about rooting out etymology of terminologies. I love dialects, as I said up there. It’s like staring at the soul of a people. But there’s a huge depth in following the word from it’s current state down through it’s lineage. You’ll surely see a lot of colonization as you head down the rabbit hole. I unfortunately don’t even speak English right, so other languages. Eh. I always figured that’s the terror of the ADHD side coming in. That difficulty of translating something short term -> long term. Best I can say in this camp is when I listen to the dialogue in movies, or the lyrics in songs - I like to break down what I am hearing. It might be hard for me to understand their er…romanticized translations but I do listen to the bits and sit on them. But I’ve listened to a sea of Spanish/Japanese things by this point in my life and I never picked up either. I think the only thing I am going to end up speaking in the end is this bastardized version of Eng and conlangs =P!
Keep on keeping on though <3~!
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I am having a listen to Sabaton. Oooo, yeah. I hear what you’re saying here. It was the same thing I felt when I was thinking when listening to Gogol Bordello. Well, I meant actually the vocals - the pitch. They sing at a pitch lower than I think most American songs tend to hit. Ah, okay I am seeing now in this lyrics video what you’re talking about. You mean dark as in subject matter, and how it seems to be highlighting some kind of battle (Thirty Years War?) ho-kay do-kay I get you now. I am embarrassed to say but I honestly know so little about European history. I don’t know if we ever touched anything like that growing up. I only even learned a bit about the Thirty Years War recently when looking up facts about a painting I saw. I will say that something we did touch upon in school was the spread of the Normans. Which I thought was more a general expansion yet again but can see it was actually a series of conquests on account of how things were expressed. Hmm.
Thank you my fellow human for poking my brain awake and getting it to bubble and churn.
I always thought perhaps in Europe things spread more by migration than colonization but I suppose it makes sense. When you actually sit and think about that too. You’ve just made me aware of how little I know as a whole, and I’ve got the itch to fill the gap. I will say
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Hey Auster (I believe that was your name - just going off of memory so it might be wrong). Thanks to you I went down the rabbit hole on the 30 Years War. As soon as I started, I said oh yeah, it’s this! I remember a bit about this. It was a fun romp and I wanted to send some thanks your way.
And thank you for the detailed suggestion, I’m copying it into my study notes to preserve it. That actually would be wonderful, because to understand the base of a language you would in fact begin to see the etymological roots shared among one another. There was a really interesting article someone posted on here within the past two weeks about the spread of Asiatic and African languages. Did you see it?