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We are not the same

If this doesn’t roll over your tongue easily, maybe that says more about the size of your penis than about the English language. Or maybe it doesn’t. I’m not a native speaker

(which I prefer to call hochdeutsch, since german is a nationalist contruct that erases many other languages spoken by peoples living in Germany-Switzerland-Austria.)

Quite a bit to unpack here.

1. “Hochdeutsch” isn’t the term usually used in linguistics for two reasons: First, Hochdeutsch (or High German) refers to something else which is the upper and middle dialect groups (Ober- und Mitteldeutsch) combined, basically everything except lower German (Niederdeutsch aka Plattdeutsch). Second, “hoch” sounds like a value statement. As if it was the higher form of the language witch it is not. It’s the standardized form, hence Standard German (Standarddeutsch).
2. Which other languages are you talking about? Romani? Sorbian? Migrant languages? Because most if not all others are German dialects. Source: They have no army of their own.

And that’s basically my point: Someone from Oldenburg will have a much easier time understanding someone from Groningen than someone from Vienna, despite the fact that both speak German dialects and not Dutch. Now you can argue that Low German (Plattdeutsch) is its own language in its own right but, again, someone from Cologne will get along with someone from Duisburg (linguistically at least) while Duisburg is Low German and Cologne is Middle German. Where ever you draw the lines and how many lines you might draw, they are always arbitrary.

Now it makes more sense to me to speak of dialect groups where neighboring groups are mutually intelligible. This model comes much closer to the real dialect continuum that continental western Germanic languages form (it’s called “continental western Germanic dialect continuum” or in German “Kontinentalwestgerrmanisches Dialektkontinuum” and I had a linguistics docent who really loved this term). You can’t group these dialect groups to languages because each time you try, you will end up with neighboring groups in different languages. It’s better to just abolish the very concept of distinct languages as a nationalist idea. #nobordernonation

And sorry for the cliff hanger if you happened to read the comment before the edit. I hit “send” by accident.

There is a saying in linguistics attributed to every smart person who ever worked in that field: A language is a dialect with a navi and an army.

Basically saying it’s a political idea to separate dialects into distinct languages. Historically, it was the formation of nation states and it’s part of the national identity to speak a common language.

TLDR Sure, Flemish and Dutch form a dialect continuum but so does Dutch and German (and obviously Luxembourgish)

So a big penis a called “Richard” and everyone who calls theirs “Dick” has a small one?

You forgot a crucial detail: He could appear out of nowhere because he lives in Jeffries tubes

Tim is AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) for Robert

I know the word has a different meaning in a different context but I guess you only get add revenue for human traffic

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Thanks, I like being right on the internet

Thanks fot adding context to my comment

this assumes a left to right interpretation which is not universal

While this is true, the graphic is in English using the Latin script. The Latin script is, as you might know, a left to right script which triggers a left to right interpretation of the whole thing.

Honestly, it didn’t trigger me at all but it would be more logical to also put the bigger color first (read: on the left)

From my understanding “winner takes it all” is on state level, so the winner gets all the votes people. I only know this from the US.

“First past the post” is when there is one elected person per district and they need a relative majority which is also true in the UK.

In other countries like France, you have more than one round or need an absolute majority. Still gerrymanderable but not “first past the post”.

I follow you so far but Bruy-den? Really?

I’m not sure about that. I think ST still does it the old fashion way and I’ve seen it about The Orville in a making off

**It’s supposed to be pronounced “Guy-den”, but most people were mispronouncing it “Gay-den” back in the day.

Of cause people will assume all names of your children rhyme when 3 already do, duh

Neither am I but much less am I used to the day starting at 0

How do you see that and this is your reaction?

It’s too unregular and too good to be a coincidence. Unless they threw an algorithm on it that was intended for whatever

You know about neo-pronouns, get ready for neo-months