Decline of the West???

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Re: Decline of the West???

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Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:21 pmI made the claim about the language, not the alphabet. What is it that you're not understanding here?
Alphabets and Literacy are just as integral to language as phonetics.

Maybe Old English had a majority German word count, phonetically, but certainly not modern English.

Ironic that you and Sculptor don't know this in a Philosophy forum.
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Sculptor wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:26 pmThere is no such thing as the "English ALphabet" FFS.
:D :D :D
Don't be ridiculous :roll:
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Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:19 pm
Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 5:41 amSo the alphabet came first, before spoken language?
Sculptor wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:10 amFFS.
DO you think language came before or after writing?
THink about the question before you answer. And when you have your answer you can hide your head in shame.
That's not what I said nor implied.

The English Alphabet is only minorly Germanic, definitely not a majority like you claimed.
The English language is a Germanic language.

The alphabet we use is Latin. which like the Greek one is inherited from Pheoncian.
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Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:27 pm
Sculptor wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:26 pmThere is no such thing as the "English ALphabet" FFS.
:D :D :D
Don't be ridiculous :roll:
You are just making an arse of yourself.
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Re: Decline of the West???

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Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:27 pm
Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:21 pmI made the claim about the language, not the alphabet. What is it that you're not understanding here?
Alphabets and Literacy are just as integral to language as phonetics.

Maybe Old English had a majority German word count, phonetically, but certainly not modern English.

Ironic that you and Sculptor don't know this in a Philosophy forum.
No, alphabets are not integral to languages at all. I don't use the Latin alphabet when I read English.
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Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:29 pm
Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:27 pm
Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:21 pmI made the claim about the language, not the alphabet. What is it that you're not understanding here?
Alphabets and Literacy are just as integral to language as phonetics.

Maybe Old English had a majority German word count, phonetically, but certainly not modern English.

Ironic that you and Sculptor don't know this in a Philosophy forum.
I don't use the Latin alphabet when I read English.
Yes you do.

But they do not determine language, which it always preliterate historically and personally.
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Re: Decline of the West???

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Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:15 pm
FlashDangerpants wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 1:11 amYou are attempting to make a racial point with that video about black people being violent? That proves my point that you think entirely in racial terms.
No, you are an Accuser and projecting your own racism. You don't even know what you're talking about, even when confronted with the reality of black-majority populations and what they do when unpoliced.

You're simple-minded.
In two sentences you went from denying your own racism, to accusing me of your racism, to saying that racism is right anyway.

You are a self basting turkey.
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Sculptor wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:32 pm
Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:29 pm
Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:27 pm
Alphabets and Literacy are just as integral to language as phonetics.

Maybe Old English had a majority German word count, phonetically, but certainly not modern English.

Ironic that you and Sculptor don't know this in a Philosophy forum.
I don't use the Latin alphabet when I read English.
Yes you do.

But they do not determine language, which it always preliterate historically and personally.
I assure I do not use the Latin alphabet when I read English. Please try and think what you're saying.
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Of course it determines the language.

If what you and Maia argued were true, then we'd be writing in the German alphabet, not the American-English one.

Maia, since you cannot see the letters you're writing, and the lack of Germanic rune-symbols, you literally cannot know what you're claiming here.
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Re: Decline of the West???

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Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:35 pm Of course it determines the language.

If what you and Maia argued were true, then we'd be writing in the German alphabet, not the American-English one.

Maia, since you cannot see the letters you're writing, and the lack of Germanic rune-symbols, you literally cannot know what you're claiming here.
German uses the Latin alphabet too, by the way.

I'm fully aware of runes. I'm a Pagan, remember? Runes can be carved.

But, to reiterate, when I read English, from a book, for example, it's not written in the Latin alphabet. But it's still English.
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Turkey switched from using the Arabic alphabet to the Latin one in 1928. They just changed alphabets, not languages. Other languages have switched between latin and cyrillic also without suddenly being new languages because of it.

Wizzzzzard is the dumbest of all motherfuckers.
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Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:39 pmGerman uses the Latin alphabet too, by the way.
And USA, England, the Anglo-sphere still doesn't use it, precisely my point.

Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:39 pmI'm fully aware of runes. I'm a Pagan, remember? Runes can be carved.

But, to reiterate, when I read English, from a book, for example, it's not written in the Latin alphabet. But it's still English.
Braille is second-hand transcription. You still base your translations off of the English alphabet and all its derivatives.

I think this side-track argument has gone on long enough now. I'll return to the theme of the thread.
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Re: Decline of the West???

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FlashDangerpants wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:40 pmTurkey switched from using the Arabic alphabet to the Latin one in 1928. They just changed alphabets, not languages. Other languages have switched between latin and cyrillic also without suddenly being new languages because of it.

Wizzzzzard is the dumbest of all motherfuckers.
Congratulations pea-brain, you missed the point. Keep swinging.
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Re: Decline of the West???

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Wizard22 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:43 pm
Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:39 pmGerman uses the Latin alphabet too, by the way.
And USA, England, the Anglo-sphere still doesn't use it, precisely my point.

Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:39 pmI'm fully aware of runes. I'm a Pagan, remember? Runes can be carved.

But, to reiterate, when I read English, from a book, for example, it's not written in the Latin alphabet. But it's still English.
Braille is second-hand transcription. You still base your translations off of the English alphabet and all its derivatives.

I think this side-track argument has gone on long enough now. I'll return to the theme of the thread.
It's not second hand transcription at all, but a fully developed writing system in it's own right. According to your argument, if it's written or composed in Braille, it's not English. And since I can't read the Latin alphabet, I must be illiterate.
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Re: Decline of the West???

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Maia wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:49 pmAnd since I can't read the Latin alphabet, I must be illiterate.
If someone carved a sentence out of Latin characters, could you feel the carvings and read it?

I know it wouldn't be as smooth and natural of an experience for you as reading Braille, but could you? Do you tactically know the shapes of the letters well enough to do that?
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