You have to wonder why there's such a sharp boundary between the simplified Western European languages and the Eastern European languages which have retained more of their complexity, when all these languages evolved from the same root language, Proto-Indo-European. It's virtually the exact same boundary as between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire, between Catholicism/Protestantism and Orthodoxy, between capitalism and communism, between Latin and Greek, etc. And it's also a gradient within the West, where the power center has the most dumbed down and simplified language. And it's not just language, the dumbing down of the masses with public schooling has also been much more extensive in the West. Former communist countries did not dumb down their masses to the same extent, they have not had the Prussian Education System, they didn't abolish Euclid in the 50s for example like the entire West did. See https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/531897285/#531909260.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOJ4p8e7NQ
>>18421166Why are Magyars always so fucking damn based? How is it fair for them to keep winning?
>>18421166>German in the middle between too complicated and too soullessly simpleWe can't stop winning Germanbros.
What does abolishing Euclid mean
>>18421227It means they stopped teaching Euclid's Elements and Euclidean geometry.
Literacy rates in the west have been much higher through out history so more cases of simple peasants, who can read and write, deforming and simplifying the language.
>>18421238>source: my crackpipe
>>18421166Because languages are bullshit in an age of tiktok brainrot and emojis. Languages wont exist in 1000 years because people communicate with their brainwaves or some shit. Slavoids of course wont exist till then because their birthrate is shittier than those in the west.
>>18421166What objective evidence do you have for connection between number of cases and intelligence or sophistication of thought? Some of the greatest philosophy and poetry in history has been done in Chinese, which has no cases or conjugation at all.
>>18421166I have started to have some ideas while I watched the video and they were actually addressed at the very last point in it: languages with less inflections may be easier to learn as a second language as they tend to have lower barriers of entry. Languages which were spreading the most will have this characteristic. On the other hand I wouldn't call them "easier" per se as you will need larger vocabulary to fully express your thoughts. More "traditional" languages have higher barriers of entry (which is a non-issue whatsoever for native speakers) as they demand from you to learn a hundred of morphemes to say the most basic sentences; but this hundred of morphemes is powerful enough that it lets you get away with forgiving grammatical rules overall and smaller vocabulary.
>>18421166why are we gray?actually, there's no agreement as to the number of grammatical cases in hungarian. the majority will tell you it's 18, but 3 and 35 were also claimed, depending on the definition of 'case'. on one end are the purists who think agglutinative languages have endings, not cases, and they claim only nominative, accusative and genitive are true cases in Hungarian. the 18 cases crowd thinks you only have a case if it is a properly assimilated ending with separate forms per wovel harmony class. the 35 cases crowd, including yours truly, thinks that non-assimilated pospositions that sport a full set of pronoun forms are also cases, in tune with the Universal Dependencies crowd who think - again correctly, IMHO - that prepositional phrases in English are carriers of cases, like 'in' introducing a locative.
>>18422769>why are we gray?From the other thread, on /lit/:>Because those are agglutinative languages and the number of cases is not comparable between Indo-European languages and agglutinative languages.
>>18421166>It's virtually the exact same boundary as between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire, between Catholicism/Protestantism and Orthodoxy, between capitalism and communism, between Latin and Greek, etc.tell me more about byzantine orthodox communist greek latvia lithuania poland and czech rep
>>18422740bullshit you made up but are stating as though it's fact
>>18422979They did say "virtually", not "precisely".
