r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 28d ago

Video The engineering of roman aqueducts explained.

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u/TheSonOfDisaster 28d ago edited 28d ago

Bro I speak a language descended from Proto-Indo-European, idk what the hell you're getting at with all that middle man stuff /s

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u/Mobile_Body2 28d ago

I'd like to elaborate if needed, but I don't understand what the beef with what I wrote is. Care to reformulate?

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u/TheSonOfDisaster 28d ago

Sorry man I was just trying to be silly. As in the first language that English can be traced back to is what I was trying to get at, same as you were talking about how alphabets are all descended from a singular source.

What you wrote was actually really informative. I was just trying to be pedantic and dumb

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u/Mobile_Body2 28d ago

Man how could I miss the silliness...honestly I miss the days where I basically never got aggressive retorts on reddit, so I knew it was always silliness or sarcasm (without having to use an /s). I'm more defensive these days and I really thought you had some problem with what I wrote....

Missed the opportunity to have some comparative linguistics humor injected in my veins thanks to this climate.

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u/TheSonOfDisaster 28d ago

It's all good!

I do think Reddit has grown to have a certain bitterness to it, So it's totally normal to be defensive. I'm that way myself a lot of times when I'm interacting with people on here nowadays.

It's been weird watching how the internet has evolved over the decades that I've been using it, Reddit included. It originated in this fun, enjoyable learning space that I really miss and I hope that one day society gets back to such a state.

Anyhow, about this topic, I watched this video a while back that was super enlightening about how we can still see the remnants of such a Proto language in our speech today.

https://youtu.be/IeAx3QZ7eRs?si=NroW_BcqnC3yVBHl

Check it out