Please stop saying Language [X] is "the oldest". Please oh please. Tweet added by Ola Wikander @OlaWikander

Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

Please stop saying Language [X] is "the oldest". Please oh please.

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Dr. Ադամ Բաուդիշ (ادم بودش)

@DarkLordBaudish

2 years

@OlaWikander God spoke Proto-Slavic in Eden. Adam and Eve were fluent in Czech.

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Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

@DarkLordBaudish Are you sure you've czeched that with the Hebrew? I'll show myself out.

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Nihilgorath

@nihilgorath

2 years

@OlaWikander ULTRAFRENCH is the oldest.

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Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

@nihilgorath ULTRA MAGNUS disagrees! :

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J. Alan Henning https://dice.camp/@jalanhenning

@JAlanHenning

2 years

@OlaWikander FORTRAN is the oldest language. ;-)

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Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

@JAlanHenning "When I was young, we used pre-assembly binary opcodes, so there. Young'uns these days..." God apparently wrote in LISP, though.

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Jonathan 🎃

@PseudoJonathan

2 years

@OlaWikander It’s Dutch though

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Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

@PseudoJonathan Antvverpianorum linguam antiquissimam et nobilissimam esse certe novimus!

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doug henning

@likethemagician

2 years

@OlaWikander

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an anvil of Yahweh

@anvilofyahweh

2 years

@OlaWikander Solved by saying: "language X is the oldest extant." (and X = Sumerian)

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Misha

@WasABoojum

2 years

@OlaWikander Most people who say “language X is the oldest” are wrong and have an agenda, and this is even more annoying…

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Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

@sdvrie And the pronunciation is identical. We know this because we know this. *Sarcasm-sign*

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Mischa Hooker

@pseudepigraphon

2 years

@OlaWikander Because as we all know from Herodotus, it was already experimentally determined to be Phrygian! 😋

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Sáulė

@sankuperis

2 years

@OlaWikander “Det äldsta levande indoeuropeiska språket” 😂

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Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

@sufilerti PROTO-WORLD ++++11111+++1+1+1+1+11111++11!!!!

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Xose Alvarez #oficialidá

@XoseAlvarez2

2 years

@OlaWikander Do you know that moment when you step on a tiny Lego piece while walking barefoot? What comes out of your mouth IS the oldest language.

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Ola Wikander

@OlaWikander

2 years

@EdwardQuine

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