Post #4088333
2026-07-25 13:02 UTC
Scientists have predicted that human linguistic diversity flourished between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago, before declining with the rise of multinational states and colonial expansion.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-uncover-lost-golden-age-of-languages-that-ended-1-000-years-ago/
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@hyc@mastodon.social 2026-07-27 16:04
@404mediaco@mastodon.social how exactly does one "predict" an event that supposedly occurred in the past? "Pre" "dict" literally means to "say before".
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@torsi@torsi.ca 2026-07-25 13:30
@404mediaco@mastodon.social Framing this is "golden age" for "linguistic diversity" is a really weird way to describe people not being able to talk to one another.