RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoGood news people!hexbear.netimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10
arrow-up179arrow-down1imageGood news people!hexbear.netRNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareinfuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoThere’d be a workaround by velarizing the uvular fricative (beeg wurd for how tung moov forwerd a bit). Like how French people understand the th-sound as how children who have lost their two front teeth pronounce their Ts. Hebrew, on the other hand, would have problems.
minus-squarenovibelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoSo he should be able to speak a language that’ll be dead in 1000 years. But he won’t be able to speak one that was dead 1000 years ago… got it.
There’d be a workaround by velarizing the uvular fricative (beeg wurd for how tung moov forwerd a bit). Like how French people understand the th-sound as how children who have lost their two front teeth pronounce their Ts.
Hebrew, on the other hand, would have problems.
So he should be able to speak a language that’ll be dead in 1000 years. But he won’t be able to speak one that was dead 1000 years ago… got it.