Which European language am I reading (jlai.lu)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Camus@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/yurop@lemm.ee

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[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I dunno it's all Greek to me mate

[-] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, of course, I am familiar with the endonyms of all these uncommon languages and their (not always unique) associated flags.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Geoguessr players: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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..

[-] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago

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?"

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

@Comment105@lemm.ee,

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..?

[-] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

No worries, thank you for coming back to this comment, even later!

Have a good one!

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

I don't know who they are but I like Frysk's flag.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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).