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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Replying to @Meaningness @alicemazzy
It’s not really credible that any ordinary person ever actually spoke Sanskrit; there are vastly too many obscure verb forms. The brahmins invented it, and since it was the prestige dialect, a rounded-off version trickled down to hoi polloi.
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