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keingleichgewicht · 1 year

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if you need me i'm inventing a new Hot Take viewpoint on the whole tangled debate of "what is a language" versus "what is a dialect" versus "topolect" versus "regiolect" versus "[null prefix] lect" etc etc which is that ACTUALLY the only good and correct way to do the terminology is that high alemannic is a fangyan

#am i making a point here? probably not. is it funny? IT IS TO ME #next time somebody asks me how languages i speak instead of being like 3.5 i really ought to be like COMMIT TO AN OPINION ON #THE TRANSLATION OF FANGYAN. QUICKLY!#languages #dot txt

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