• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzM
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    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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        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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            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”.