There's a ton to unpack in this chart but let's just look at one corner.https://twitter.com/TeleportInc/status/841997568506789894 …
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Those European countries each had a dozen mutually-unintelligible dialects until 1800s: uniformity imposed by states, cuz Westphalia
"A language is a dialect with a standing army"
what's that from?
Hmm, the omniscient goog says: אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy …
this is one of those "evil or stupid" scenarios where @Ctzn5's maxim is relevant
i note with amusement that Japan seems to be unique in this chart @St_Rev
japan never had an empire, but NOT FOR WONT OF TRYING
Southern islands have like seven different mutually unintelligible dialects though
Okinawa isn't THAT backwards. They are very different tho. Heavily different slang but not mutually unintelligible usually @cwage
i have a friend that plays in the roller derby league there. #unrelated
random! @St_Rev
Whats funny is that the 'woke' person who made this doesn't realize how culturally illiterate he is
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