this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
39 points (62.3% liked)
Memes
45660 readers
1607 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Read my other comments for a more detailed explanation, but the tl;dr of the matter is that while they are both Indo-European languages, each is from a vastly different branch family of the Indo-European language family. The Hellenic and Romance branch families for Greek and Latin respectively.
Technically they are related, but technically if you go far back enough I am related to you too, however any sensible person would never make the claim that you and I are related simply because we share a common ancestor somewhere along our history.
Edit: my other comments also have sources, but I don't want to repeat myself once more, so I wont put them here as well. :)
"Technically".. I was simply trying to state that the absolutes being used here are wrong. They are. I am not interested at the moment in splitting hairs, that was never what I was trying to discuss. I happen to think it's interesting to see how things are related. I think I'd love studying linguistics if it weren't for your type being so prevalent. The type of person who will say "this has absolutely nothing to do with that" as if the only valuable perspective is to split and divide, and that taking a glimpse at the unknowable mysteries-- of exactly how historical changes played out-- is stupidity that should be stomped on.
It's 100% true that there is a relationship and telling people there isn't serves only to make you feel smart. I made no false assertions whatsoever so stop acting like I'm spreading dangerous lies.
I wasn't attacking you with my comment, but anyway. I do agree there is a relationship and they influenced each other a lot (mostly Greek influencing Latin, not so much in reverse). I was just trying to say that not even linguists claim they are related. I didn't once make the claim that they have nothing to do with each other either.
Yeah, the use of "related" in only one way is a pet peeve of mine. Relationships have many natures, and I think we all intuitively know that. I don't believe in arbitrarily enforcing one of those types as the only valid one. Notice I never said anything false. I just think it's fascinating to learn about those relationships and think about the things we can't know. It's not as though I imagined that they are super similar and then argued for that being fact ...
On that we agree :) If you like language/linguistic content in general, check out this guy. He makes content about old norse and such, its really interesting