cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/9070854
I dunno it's all Greek to me mate
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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Ah yes, of course, I am familiar with the endonyms of all these uncommon languages and their (not always unique) associated flags.
Geoguessr players: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
gonna coin the English word "milieuwise" - as in "to move towards, or be appropriate for, the current environment" and fuck this chart up.
edit: no need, found the error - on the bottom line you get to English by saying no to "chh" but it appears in hitchhiking, beachhead, witchhood, and, humorously, touchholes.
Seriously.
Now I'm no scholar, but categorising English as part of the Celtic-branch is just ridoinkulous to me. Like-- that might have been true since before the Roman conquest, but Modern English is easily a West-Germanic branch, overlaid with Norman French, starting in 1066.
It's not so much about classification than finding a place to identify it using a suite of yes/no branches based on specific graphems.
German and Dutch are very close languages, but in complete different places in this tree.
German and Dutch are very close languages, but in complete different places in this tree.
So maybe we could use a better platform for understanding? (hence my original point?)
(Modern German and Dutch are both from the West-Germanic tree, last I checked)
specific graphems
Okay, fine, granted-- but how does that actually help anyone in this day & age learn about these languages?
AS IN-- dude, we don't need to carry a master's degree in order to understand how English formed out of Anglo-Saxon, with Norman French overlaid on top, now do we?
EDIT: Oh rabbits, no, it's ME whose wrong. Whups..
I still don't think you understand the point of the graphic. It's called "What European language am I reading?", not "how are these European languages related?"
Oof. I think you're right (2wks later, dangit!), Eiim.
Sorry about that. :S
@Servais@discuss.tchncs.de @discuss.tchncs.de, that was rude of me, and I apologise.
FWIW, I've posted a general apology in our sub's general update if you care to look. Sorry again.
I’d personally attack you with something far worse than a silly goose. If I was on my reddit account!
Hmm, what do you think about rabbits instead of geese..?
No worries, thank you for coming back to this comment, even later!
Have a good one!
I don't know who they are but I like Frysk's flag.
If you like the West Frisian flag wait until you see North Frisia's coat of arms. That's a pot of (red?) grit there, and the motto is "Better dead than slave". Just don't try to conquer them and they're perfectly pleasant to be around with and share a state with, rather cooking grit than looking for trouble. (Not identical to the coat of the district of Nordfriesland, that's quite a bit more territory than North Frisia proper).
I enjoy how there's a language called "iron".
Its a solid language, but im a bit rusty with it.
Sorry, im leaving.
The swedish one is incorrect. It's ä and ö not æ and ø.