I have a crackpot theory that the PIE flamen/brahmin caste invented the PIE language as an IQ-signaling mechanism, and proliferated inflections to make the priestly language as difficult as possible.
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C'mon. It's not that much more complicated than Homeric Greek, which the Achaeans pretty clearly spoke in the Bronze Age.
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Hmm. I learned Classical Greek. How does that compare with Homeric? I gave up on trying to learn Sanskrit when I realized it was MUCH worse than the Greek I’d learned. My recollection is >4000 verb forms per conjugation, and several of those. Maybe memory exaggerates?
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In those days, Greeks spoke spontaneously in iambic pentameter too, right?
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Even the smallest children. A Pindaric ode or no breakfast.
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languages invented for priestly literary rather than common oral communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic …
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