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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 219 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Be Polish. Live at the crossroads of three major continental zones. Incorporates traditions from Arabic, Latin, and Nordic languages into a unique synthesis. Everybody hates it. Nobody wants to speak it.

Be English. Live at the ass end of nowhere, and become a haven for vagrants, dissidents, pirates, and exiles. Incorporate traditions from Latin, Germanic, and Frankish languages into a unique synthesis. Everyone hates it. Nobody wants to speak it. Become worlds most spoken language anyway.

Moral of the story. People will have to learn your shitty incoherent language if you build a big enough navy.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

glances at who builds all the processors and hardware components

Time to start learning Chinese and/or Korean.

[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

See, those are essentially the raw goods now. Finished goods are entertainment and the internet.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The trillion dollar piece of one of a kind manufacturing equipment where I get my raw goods.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The French in the '90s had Daft Punk and the Minitel.

Après moi je dis ça je ne dis rien.

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Où est passé du-coup?

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 8 points 1 month ago

How long until internet slang/lingo snowballs out of control and becomes an actual language? I mean, it's already constantly spawning words and a diverse enough environment.
I notice sometime I lack an optimal word to describe a concept IRL that an internet term would fit perfectly but would be cringe or meaningless unless the listener was also terminally online. There's also stealing terms from other languages that catch on, but that don't work offline(IE. Zeitgeist, pantsdrunk, kawaii) that get spread around enough to be generally know, even if a bit odd.

Yes, including brainrot. Especially brainrot. It's not all pleasant.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or have the most prestigious universities and most powerful companies.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That all leads back to cultural exchange and trade through the sea though.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Be Lithuanian. Get culturally dominated by Poland. Refuse to speak Polish anyway. Refuse influence from any language. Remove loan words, replace them with newly made Baltic sounding ones. End up impossible to learn.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank Teddy Roosevelt and Queen Victoria for that

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

If ya dont you will be beaten by Roosevelt's "big stick".