Yup, this is a political post. Sock it to me.

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st Etymology is not inherently political. Although what that discussion devolved into.. Let's say that it was out of your control. Now post a catgirl or Patchy to atone for it, just in case.

@niobleoum@nekosat.work >Now post a catgirl or Patchy to atone for it Why not both?

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st The English doesn't have that?

@coolboymew@shitposter.world Nope You had "unofficial" and influential groups like Oxford University and their dictionary project for the English and "unofficial" language leaders people followed like Noah Webster for America. Both sides of the Pond have always seen such a proposed organization as obtrusive to people's liberty, even though the destruction of a nation's tongue, whether through accident, malicious incompetence, or malicious intent, produces the opposite of liberty for society. What had been done is done.

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st @coolboymew@shitposter.world if cawfee was still up, teto could probably give you a history of german unification and it's relation to the attempted standardisation of the german language. he and waldbro lament it's failure everytime i speak to them in German using my Swiss dialect

Give me liberty or give me deaf

YOU NIGGER OF NIGGERS THEY COUNT YOU AS THE 10% OUT OF THE 13% OF THE POPULATION THAT'S BLACK

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st @coolboymew@shitposter.world >search for video that explains the differences >realize the bottom is actually a grammatical error in standard german, and i fucking do it all the time when i speak standard german actually befuddled, also found out they use the word "rock" instead of "jupe" for a skirt, teto already called me out for calling a bicycle a "Velo" instead of "Fahrrad". https://youtu.be/zfX1OFMXUh4 here's the video btw

>think high school Spanish is hard because I have to conjugate a bunch of verbs in a bunch of cray tenses and remember it all >take German in college to meet Gen. Ed requirements thinking it's easier because it's "related to English" >get the shock of my life when I try to learn the rules of the "nonsense grammatical order" 😩

@eee@poa.st @SuperSnekFriend@poa.st @coolboymew@shitposter.world where did you get that from lmao?

Patchy! noice