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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
chaotic_evil@jorts.horse ("Florist vs the Anthropocene") wrote:
people often get confused by the terms high german and low german. looking at a map doesn't necessarily help. you need to kind of...zoom out.
think of it in terms of space. in low earth orbit, astronauts tend to speak low german. as you go further up, you get into high german.
the moon is a different animal. particularly on the dark side, where it's much harder to see orthography. you have people speaking latin, minoan, tocharian, even sanskrit, in isolated cases.