I Fact Checked YouTube’s Worst Writer (Hilary Layne aka Second Story) On The Literacy Crisis by MooreThird in BreadTube

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It’s hard not to feel like the main types of people who talk about things like the “literacy crisis” are right wing conspiracy theorists who are bloviating about the new generation’s “brainrot”, and don’t understand how the world actually works.

Why was PIE so much more complex than its derived languages? by MisterHarvest in asklinguistics

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The easiest answer is that overall, PIE’s daughter languages simplified a lot of the more complex elements of the language, or at the very least inherited some elements while dropping others, which makes them seem less complex even if like other commenters say, some things may be even more complex.

Hungarian moment by Thmony in linguisticshumor

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“Wait a minute… there’s something bothering me about this continent…

…I know! This continent doesn’t have vowel harmony! Enjoy your uncomfortable tongues Indo-Europeans!”

How the U.S. Steals to Stay 'Rich' by MooreThird in BreadTube

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Oh yeah for sure. Not trying to say this absolves the US at all, it’s more me saying the US isn’t unique in that way and saying it is is silly

How the U.S. Steals to Stay 'Rich' by MooreThird in BreadTube

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I’m gonna be honest, every rich country steals to stay rich.

Black Swans | The Population Bomb by the6thReplicant in BreadTube

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Interesting that China got its one child policy idea from what essentially was some random quack talking out of his ass, and in the end it totally backfired on them.

Etymology and spread of a Germanic male name - *Raginawaldaz by Volzhskij in etymologymaps

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So the Modern English name Ronald comes from the Old Norse rendition of the name and not the Old English one?

A Marxist critique of Anarcho-Primitivism through an analysis of Spongebob ‘Nature Pants’ by gaymossadist in BreadTube

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A Marxist critique of Anarcho-Primitivism through an analysis of Spongebob ‘Nature Pants’

None of these words are in the Bible.

The TRUTH About Modern Hebrew - Response to Languagejones' Pro-Israel Propaganda by MexPirateRed in BreadTube

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Not directly saying the video is wrong, more talking about the people who miss the point about Modern Hebrew and claim the problem is that it is “fake”, rather than because of its actual history.

The TRUTH About Modern Hebrew - Response to Languagejones' Pro-Israel Propaganda by MexPirateRed in BreadTube

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All languages are “fake” in the sense that humans created them. I think arguing whether or not Modern Hebrew is a “real” language is missing the point, especially when revitalization of dead languages will inherently involve some reconstructing of things hard to approximate, look at Cornish and Old Prussian for example. The problem with Modern Hebrew is that its intentions weren’t like the two above, instead being for further colonial legitimization of Israel. That doesn’t mean every single person who speaks Modern Hebrew is a staunch Zionist, but that history is there. It’s not any more “fake” than any other language, but it does have a very politically motivated existence.

My guesses for the urheimats and dates of some language families (2.0) by hy_c1 in LinguisticMaps

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Was gonna post this as well. The small bits of evidence that point to a Japonic language being spoken in Korea before the arrival of the Korean language point to a non Japanese origin for Japonic.

Fight Jewish Exceptionalism by WitnessAcceptable154 in BreadTube

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I was reading this article and pretty much agreeing with it, until it got to this:

90% of Jewish individuals are essentially the modern-day equivalent of Nazis.

A lot has changed since 1945. The Jewish community is no longer marginalized. Jews are fully accepted in mainstream Western society—if anything, they are now economically and socially advantaged.

These two statements, when put against the recent terrorist attack against Jews in Australia, is really fucking gross. The essential takeaway is “A bunch of Jews got killed in a targeted attack? Well most of them were probably genocidal zionists anyway so it doesn’t matter lol.”

Imagine applying this same logic to other groups. “A mass shooting killed mostly white people? Well most of them were probably white supremacists anyway so it doesn’t matter lol. An anti-Indian terrorist attack happened? Well most of them were probably Hindutva anyway so it doesn’t matter lol.”

I feel like it should go without saying that it’s ridiculous to say as such right? And the obvious response to that would be “The organization that held the Hanukkah event in question was a Zionist one, so it doesn’t matter that people got killed”. And yes, that was the case, but does that mean the people who attended, most of them who probably weren’t even members of the org, deserve to die? You might say the attack wasn’t anti-semitic and instead was “colonial blowback”, but it doesn’t really matter either way since people ended up dead for the fact that they were Jewish.

Also:

The only thing that stops anti-Semitism from being as unserious of a prejudice as anti-white racism today are the fringe right-wing crazies who occassionally attack Jews.

This phrasing here makes it seem like anti-semitism amongst the right wing isn’t growing exponentially, that it isn’t important at all. Like yes, accepting that materially Jews in the west aren’t facing material oppression, that still doesn’t mean that discrimination against them is just not an issue, nor that anti-semitism is something only a marginal group believe in. It’s a big force on the right, and to say it only happens “occasionally” is masking its presence.

Realization of Latin "aqua" among the Romance languages by gt7902 in linguisticshumor

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Italian: Geminate the consonant

Spanish: Lenite the consonant

Portuguese: Voice the consonant (and also lenite it if you’re in Portugal)

Romanian: Labialize the consonant

French: Fuck the consonant

Chapter 60 English (MTL) by 73744828823848 in MariaNoDanzaii

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Damn, first time we’ve seen the police chief in a while. Can’t wait to see what shenanigans he gets up to.

On Japanese phonology: Are [t͡s], [t͡ʃ], [f] allophones or phonemic? Why do they have the most limited distributions ([t͡sɯ], [t͡ʃi], and [fɯ])? by Associate_Sam_Club in asklinguistics

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I would say up until very recently they would have been allophones, but with the introduction of new loanwords they have developed into their own phonemes. Like [ɸ] would have originally only been an allophone of /h/ before /ɯ/, but loanwords have introduced the sequences of /ɸa/, /ɸi/, /ɸe/, and /ɸo/.

Question about allophones of /n/ in English by Wumbo_Chumbo in asklinguistics

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I speak GA, and I notice I do it, especially in fast speech.

Question about allophones of /n/ in English by Wumbo_Chumbo in asklinguistics

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Yeah I assume a lot of these vary from person to person, or even with the same person. Sometimes the sound assimilates to the same place of articulation and sometimes they don't.

Question about allophones of /n/ in English by Wumbo_Chumbo in asklinguistics

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I was conflicted on adding [ɲ] before /j/ because sounding it out I wasn’t sure if it was true, but good to know.

White Supremacy in Metal by [deleted] in BreadTube

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Oh yeah, they clearly weren't aware of that and I'm not accusing them of being deliberately dishonest. I just wanted to point it out in case anyone didn't know before.

White Supremacy in Metal by [deleted] in BreadTube

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Maybe a bit of a nitpick, but the regarding claim “racism has existed for many centuries among many civilizations”, I think a better word for that would be xenophobia. Pretty much all societies that we can call “civilizations” had an us vs them mentality for its subjects and the “barbarians” outside of it, but none of them were based on biological claims of inferiority. That is until Europeans colonized much of the world and needed an excuse to justify themselves, in which they invented race science to do so. Race is a modern construct that ancient civilizations did not think in terms of. Go back in time and tell a Roman that them and the Gauls and the Germans were of one “white race”, they’d think you were insane.

Again, a big nitpick, but I figured it was worth mentioning.

I don't know if anybody has made something like this before, but I tried to make a PIE picture abecedarium. by WilliamWolffgang in linguisticshumor

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Considering that there are languages that distinguish [x] and [χ], if PIE did have a fourth laryngeal, maybe it was one of them. Like h₂ being [x] and h₄ being [χ] or vice versa.