If I could go back in time, I think I definitely wouldn't study math but languages, and figure out a way to make being a nomad in Europe pay
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I just had to forcibly extract myself from a Wikipedia hole about Catalan.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Catalan is SO interesting. Did you go down the Iberian languages hole? There are so many! Asturiano! Mirandés! Endlessly interesting.
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Yes! Basque has fascinated me for years! Why does it have no known relatives????
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
It is so cool! I have no idea--and I've been in Basque country, and there's something so disorienting about seeing words and having >
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Replying to @ashmeads2 @EmilyGorcenski
Absolutely no idea what they mean because there aren't cognates, but it's still an alphabet I know. It's so cool!
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Replying to @ashmeads2 @EmilyGorcenski
I assume you know the website Ethnologue right? Talk about an endless rabbit hole! And the politics of what languages are called-fascinating
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I don't know this website and omg if I go down it now I will die irl
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
OMG. Ethnologue. Set a timer or have someone check on you or something because it is the BEST but also a giant timesink.
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