• Lvxferre [he/him]M
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    410 days ago

    Correspondence with European scripts:

    • the OG Latin and block letter Cyrillic are like like katakana (sharp, stabby letters)
    • Greek is like hiragana (loopy, adorable letters)
    • the “weird” Latin we use today is like Burmese, except sideways (butts everywhere)
    • cursive Cyrillic is like Mongolian, except the rain is over (the knives are poking into the ground)

    Devanagari has no European equivalent because Devanagari is perfect, since it’s used to write Sanskrit and Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Except of ULTRAFRENCH of course.

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      27 days ago

      Now I need to know what ULTRAFRENCH is. I know normal french, if it can be considerd “normal”.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]M
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        17 days ago

        Quebecois French is 50% English. English itself is 99% French. This means Quebecois French is 50%+99%=149% French, making it more French than French itself. So it’s ULTRAFRENCH. It’s one of the main candidates for the mother of all languages, alongside Hebrew and Sanskrit.

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          27 days ago

          That’s not how percentages work.

          Also, the mother oft all languages is the silent starring into the fire.

          • Lvxferre [he/him]M
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            17 days ago

            The fucked up percentages are part of the joke - claims about some attested language being the mother of all others are full of equally flawed reasoning, except the authors genuinely believe on them. Same deal with claims of English being “mostly French”; they’re as silly as saying “a tuxedo cat is 99% spotted cow, 1% orange cat”.