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dialects!!! français! occitane! hochdeutsch! schwäbisch! schweizerdeutsch! dansk! norsk! svenska! hrvatski! српски! български! македонски! türkçe! azerice! all language is a continuum of understanding in a sprachbund - ”languages“ but exist only in the socio-geopolitical sense :0
— Apr 19, 2024 11:41PM
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this man loves to talk about random shit and you can tell it’s from 2001 ig he’s just trying to make it commercial and not boring but like the bald charlie brown semantic shift metaphor?? he went on for like a page about it 💀 i despise his attempts as broadly interpretable phonetic transcriptions [SHYEng] will not give « chien » even with -ng established as nasalisation
— Apr 19, 2024 12:45AM
