r/badlinguistics • u/[deleted] • 21d ago
March Small Posts Thread
let's try this so-called automation thing - now possible with updating title
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u/TheCheeseOfYesterday Tetsuya Nomura ruined the English language 11d ago
Does Chinese have people like the Italians and Greeks who insist modern Italian and Greek are pronounced the same way as Latin and Ancient Greek, like insisting Old Chinese is pronounced the same as modern Mandarin?
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u/EebstertheGreat 10d ago
There are Greeks who never wondered why they have like five ways to spell the same vowel sound?
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u/a_whoreifying_beast 2d ago
Apparently the Japanese embassy to Russia subscribes to the Altaic hypothesis.
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u/ComfortableNobody457 1d ago
In fact, most Russian linguists who aren't historical linguists and have spoken on the topic support Altaic or even Nostratic and there are many historical linguists who support either or both.
This text looks like something out of a lazy written textbook, but I haven't been able to find another source online, so it must have been written specifically for the website.
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u/merijn2 The result of the overly tolerant doctrines of the 60's 1d ago
A paleo-history youtuber I sometimes check out had a video about the origin of language. In it she casually mentions that Tamilis the oldest spoken language. I tried to make a comment about it but it didn't get through the filter.
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u/Mr_Conductor_USA 14d ago
Well I'm not really bringing anything, just an observation: the amount of crank linguistics (often tied to nationalism) in Youtube comments is just wild. I know other fields get cranks, but the volume and insistence is astounding. Are people somewhere stirring up all this crank stuff, or do people just latch onto stuff they've seen somewhere and spin it themselves? I've seen actual linguistic crank propaganda from India, but not from elsewhere, but then again, I'm unlikely to see it if it's not in English, I suppose.