#worth - critical - to note that linguistic substrates esp in the present are often the result of genocide and mass language death

[rotzaprachim]

substrates and substrate hypotheses in linguistics make me sooooo insane you’re saying this language hasn’t been spoken in two thousand years but also people are still using words from it in their gardens and kitchens and to name their children and the substarates are still ghosts in their words and their grammar and they don’t even know????

#worth - critical - to note that linguistic substrates esp in the present are often the result of genocide and mass language death #and imperialism and colonization #in many ways a form of linguistic haunting