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Confidently Incorrect

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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 134 points 3 years ago (4 children)

dead language

If people learn it, and people use it, it is by definition not a dead language.

This is some colonialist BS.

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[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago

Also, over half a million Welsh speakers exist in Wales, accounting for roughly 20% of the population. It's hardly dead.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Well Latin is a dead language, people do learn and use it. But there is no new words, or evolution of the language.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 years ago

Not really, there is an office at the Vatican charged with maintaining orthodox Latin, and they are also responsible for neologisms for contemporary concepts, so that they can weigh in on cell phones, hot dogs, or weapons of mass destruction.

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/latinitas/documents/rc_latinitas_20040601_lexicon_it.html

One example:

"hot pants" -> "brevíssimae bracae femíneae"

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[–] vsg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

Also, isn't Welsh the Celtic language with the most native speakers?

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

Resurrected Language might be a better way to put it, the Welsh that people speak today is mostly an academic construction (which also applies to French and Portuguese, that isn't meant as an insult).

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[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago

what do you mean about french and portuguese being academic reconstructions?

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[–] aidan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

For French it is an insult. Descriptivism is lame

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[+] kadu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 years ago

Modern Hebrew is another good example of this. Possibly the most successful language revitalization project of all time.

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