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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] 27 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

there's plenty of linguistics cranks, but most of them have nationalistic tint, like people thinking that all languages come from turkish or something like that

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    like people thinking that all languages come from turkish

    This is amazing, I fucking love this. People striving to create the lowest stakes possible conspiracy. I struggle to think of something that would have less impact on the world no matter it were true or false.

    A shadowy cabal of powerful people guarding the secret of "actually, it was [rolls die] Turkish people who invented [rolls another die] language!"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    then think again, because it was a part of continuing series: turkish nationalism

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Okay sure, but this is comical. A Turkish nationalist will be a Turkish nationalist with or without this idea. It's the equivalent of saying that Turkish people have naturally less odorous farts and thus TURKIYE SHALL RULE THE WORLD!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    okay but this idea was kinda central to modern turkish nationalism. see, kurds are not distinct people, they just speak turkish but wrong (heard anything similar recently?) also this is part of the reason why standard turkish is actual common language in turkey

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