r/linguisticshumor • u/Antique-Ad-9081 • 5d ago
Historical Linguistics new theory just dropped
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u/ReasonableHawk1844 5d ago
"Dr."
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u/S-2481-A 5d ago
I love how passive aggressive that was lol. The page's author must've been Albanian.
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u/algebroni 5d ago
Imagine being the normal historian Jovan Deretić (b. 1934 in Orovac, d. 2002 in Belgrade) knowing your batshit doppelganger Jovan Deretić (b. 1939 in Orovac, d. 2021 in Belgrade) is out there destroying your name by being a caricature of a Serbian nationalist?
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u/Ipponjudo 5d ago
Bro literally has an evil twin from the same village that's crazy
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u/Nenazovemy Último Napoleão 5d ago
Maybe an evil distant cousin and the family has a St. John as patron saint?
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u/SpaceCadet_Cat 5d ago
Maybe not even distant. Family reunions would be fun to witness...
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u/Nenazovemy Último Napoleão 5d ago
— You're making me sound like a clown! — Well, you're making me sound like a Š***ar mole! Your fans will find out who you're working for on my next book.
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u/borninthewaitingroom 4d ago
There's an interesting phenomenon where if you think and think your head reaches a centripetal force that leads to a curved path orthogonal to the body that releases it and then from the gravitational pull and into the nirvational truth of ..... Well, you can see for yourself. Next month, I'm leading a pilgrimage to Donji Orovac. Any takers? Last month we went Ludbreg, the Centar of the World, discovered by Rudolf Steiner. https://maps.app.goo.gl/oUaaTZWZFU3MbdAe8
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u/KastIvegkonto 5d ago
Nationalists from the Balkans are unintentionally the funniest people alive
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u/hongooi 5d ago
RIP r/2balkan4u
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u/Doodjuststop /fʊk ɔːf/ means I love you in dutch 5d ago
all because of a reddit admin's power trip mane
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u/rexcasei 5d ago
What does it mean “hidden in the name of the Vatican”?
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u/WeidaLingxiu 5d ago
It's a sound change where if you take /b/ > /v/ and then... uh.... like... maybe like /t/ > /s/ and then use metathesis or.... Idk man I'm spit-balling here.
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u/Antique-Ad-9081 5d ago
the vatican ordered the hiding
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u/Elktopcover 5d ago
Not again! All conspiracies lead back to the Vatican somehow, just as all languages lead back to basque
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u/rexcasei 5d ago
I interpreted it at first as like, within the letters of VATICAN you somehow can spell a pertinent Serbian word that reveals the conspiracy
But “in the name of…” would imply that someone else did it for the Vatican’s sake, not the Vatican itself, or else you’d just say “by”
And what benefit would it be to Roman Catholics to hide the fact that all non-Albanian Indo-Europeans are Serbs?
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u/Vessel767 5d ago
The premise doesn’t even make sense, what does it even mean for all Indo-Europeans to be Serbs, this is more detached from reality than Nazism
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u/ramzisalmani 5d ago
Balkan nationalism is really embarrassing like this is just cartoonish lol
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u/AndreasDasos 1d ago
This flavour is popular in Eastern Europe in general, I find.
Plus the Middle East, South Asia…
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u/Arcaeca2 /qʷ’/-pilled Pontic-cel in my ejective Caucasuscore arc 5d ago
According to Deretić, prior to the conquests of Alexander the Great, there lived an even more-accomplished conqueror named Serbon Makeridov, who was "father of all nations" and that "all of his descendants, or rather all known peoples, have Serbian origin".
Ah yes, so great and accomplished that literally nobody has ever heard of him
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u/Baroness_VM 5d ago
Conservapedia?
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u/Imaginary-Space718 5d ago
Close, Rational Wiki
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u/Nuppusauruss 5d ago
That was explains it. I wondered why the language in this article was so strong and why it has been allowed to exist in Wikipedia. Not that I agree with the guy that the article is talking about, but the language is clearly biased and not within the standards of Wikipedia.
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u/bherH-on 5d ago
Oh that shithole
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u/MaxTHC 5d ago
Dunno much about rationalwiki but I doubt it's quite as bad as conservapedia
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u/theworsethebetter99 4d ago
Deretić was one of the funniest people I have ever watched. He would say the most battshit insane thing you have heard with a completely straight face. He claimed that Jesus preached in Serbian. That the Serbs taught the Jews how to write. That Swedish is just sliced up Serbian. That King Arthur was the Commander of the Serbian cavalry. That Portugal was Serbonia. So many good quotes.
https://youtu.be/T3dFQD20914?si=oLzR9YS6wmbeIOR7
This is my favorite interview.
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u/anarcho-balkan 5d ago
Dear fucking god, I hate this guy.
He's like an even more deranged version of my conspiracy theorist uncle and with a much larger media presence (and whatever media presence my uncle has, he at least has the good sense to not use for the conspiracy theories he believes in, but for music, children's cartoons and animatics he made)
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u/Express_Pressure_548 5d ago
Okay wtf did I just read???
Also, love the fact that they wrote "dr." in those quotation marks lol.
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u/OsamaMoloy 3d ago
“All Indo-Europeans (except Albanians) are Serbs” This had me cracking up! 😭😭😭😭😭
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u/AndreasDasos 1d ago
(Except for the neighbouring group they’ve historically hated the most)
Eastern European nationalism is exhausting sometimes.
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u/NichtFBI 21h ago
I would like to understand what motives he thought they had for doing this. Most things can be debunked for a lack of motive.
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u/PlatinumAltaria [!WARNING!] The following statement is a joke. 5d ago
The two genders: Albanian and Serb.