what is the most functional language? "functional" as in >no languages quirks >consistent as fuck >extremely precise while being terse

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Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:47:27 2017 No.10436213 [Reply] [Original]

what is the most functional language?

"functional" as in
>no languages quirks
>consistent as fuck
>extremely precise while being terse

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:49:57 2017 No.10436219 latin

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:50:20 2017 No.10436221 Spanish inb4 300 buttblasted anglo replies

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:50:51 2017 No.10436224 english

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:51:06 2017 No.10436225 Ancient Greek. If was Greek pm id force em like no tomorrow

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:51:29 2017 No.10436227 >>10436224 is this bait it probably is

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:53:21 2017 No.10436233 >>10436213 esperanto

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:55:00 2017 No.10436235 >>10436213 no such thing /thread

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:55:41 2017 No.10436237 >>10436213 Pidgin https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:58:07 2017 No.10436243 Why can English not be a contender? First off it doesn't worry about gender, which from my understanding is a completely arbitrary aspect of other languages that offers no descriptive value.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:58:25 2017 No.10436245 >>10436235 a small modification of arabic and in fact it'd fit OP's criteria

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 18:59:23 2017 No.10436249 Danish

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:03:19 2017 No.10436259 >>10436243 >t. gender is a social construct

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:03:35 2017 No.10436262

>>10436243
>First off it doesn't worry about gender
Yes it does. We have male and female terms for things such as actor and actress and we have pronouns that make distinctions based on gender (him, her etc) which is something other languages don't do. So if you the idea of functional in the sense that OP means leads to languages without gender distinctions then there are other languages with less of it than English.

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:03:51 2017 No.10436264

>>10436243
you're an idiot
gender is important
it adds an infinite amount of precision and information
as long as you only keep it for people and animals and add a well spelt indication for it (Like doctor, doctorette, or something like that, instead of ami and amie in french which is spelt the same and is pretty fucktarded and confusing, seriously fuck french, fuck it in the ass)
>Why can English not be a contender?
too many multi meaning words?
consistency? especially with verbs?
full of fucking quirks?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:04:38 2017 No.10436266 >>10436259 >gender and sex is the same thing

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:04:58 2017 No.10436269 >>10436262 >which is something other languages don't do are you a monolingual nigger by any chance?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:05:50 2017 No.10436274 >>10436219 fpbp?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:06:16 2017 No.10436276 spanish probably

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:08:23 2017 No.10436283 I mainly use sign language for comunication, very functional you speak "louder" by putting your hands more away from you torso and your larynx won't feel soar after having a argument.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:09:49 2017 No.10436289 >>10436283 this, my favorite sign language words is slapping my wife until she's knocked unconscious

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:15:55 2017 No.10436306 >>10436289 That hurts the hands so I normaly use my belt for that.

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:17:24 2017 No.10436312

>>10436213
>no language quirks

Languages are naturally full of irregular forms and quirks because of the human element of speaking and listening. The laziness of the human mouth, the formation of dialects, etc. ensure that no language will ever be perfectly methodical and consistent. The closest you could probably get is a constructed language that was intentionally made with the idea of being consistent, simple, and logical.

That said, the Nordic languages are pretty simple and consistent because their verbs do not conjugate based on person and number. Still, there are other aspects that make them susceptible to the same human variables as other languages.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:20:02 2017 No.10436316 >>10436312 >Nordic easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:20:15 2017 No.10436317 Finnish. As a native I may be a bit biased, though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:26:12 2017 No.10436335 >>10436262 >>10436264 >hurr natural gender and grammatical gender are the same thing

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:28:25 2017 No.10436340 >>10436213 lisp

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:31:17 2017 No.10436350 File: 172 KB, 613x636, Screenshot_2017-12-22-19-29-57-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10436245 Diderot said the same thing about French

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:34:18 2017 No.10436354 File: 137 KB, 340x340, 729.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10436213 >more consistency = more functionality

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:34:20 2017 No.10436355 >>10436227 You don't have to use purple prose, pleb.

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:34:35 2017 No.10436357

>>10436350
French is one of the shittiest and obtuse languages in existance and also very unwelcome to coining new words. English and German got it beat by a mile, while Russian was always superior to it.

l'qu'qu'un-du-accent-aigu-grave-fuckeryerbesirregulaires/\//\\loop

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:36:10 2017 No.10436363 >>10436350 What? He didn't say that. Right there he says that French is the language of the learned (sage) while other languages are good for the plebs (peuple).

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:47:56 2017 No.10436396

Every language is pretty much equally functional. People complain about genders because they're dumb *nglos who aren't used to them and to the possibilities that they offer. The tricky thing about languages is that you can't view them objectively, your thinking is necessarily shaped by one of them, so you get this sort of dumb arguments about genders and similar stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:49:41 2017 No.10436403 >>10436213 korean

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:50:08 2017 No.10436405 That''s not functional. The most functional language would be the one that serves the most functions, where layering meanings would surpass even the range given by intonation.

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:51:01 2017 No.10436407
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>>10436317
Magyar would fall into the same class. Granted the two languages are miles apart, but the logical structures built into them are similar.

No Gender
Agglunative
Phonetic
Vowel Harmony
Stress on the first syllable
Flexible word order depending on stress

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 19:51:59 2017 No.10436409 >>10436213 >no languages quirks >consistent as fuck >extremely precise while being terse Literally all languages can be like this, you just need to stop being retarded.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:00:27 2017 No.10436444 >>10436407 Nice. Finno-ugric languages seem to have it figured out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:08:23 2017 No.10436463 >>10436407 It's quite weird to see someone post American art for once.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:10:59 2017 No.10436477 >>10436213 this is why I love /lit/

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:14:59 2017 No.10436485 日本語

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:18:07 2017 No.10436493 >>10436485 no

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:18:11 2017 No.10436494 Korean was designed to be easy to learn so the peasants could pick it up quickly. appreciate looking at it from a wetern perspective makes it seem obtuse.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:26:45 2017 No.10436511 >>10436494 >Korean was designed natural languages aren't designed. you're thinking of the script, which is irrelevant to OP's dumb question.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:39:45 2017 No.10436543 >>10436219 How did they come up with such a master language that long ago? I feel like such an useless waste of oxygen whenever I think of all the accomplishments the ancients had 2000 years ago

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:45:52 2017 No.10436556 >>10436357 You're aware of why that is, correct? Middle Ages scribes got paid by the number of characters, so they made French as complicated as possible.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:48:18 2017 No.10436562 >>10436306 Belts leave marks though. I prefer the old phone book or garden hose trick. Caint get arrested if there's no evidence.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:56:15 2017 No.10436584 mathematics.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 20:56:23 2017 No.10436586 >>10436556 Accents and apostrophes aren't characters

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 21:01:07 2017 No.10436598 >>10436219 Languages simplify and become less beautiful over time. There isnt a single aspect of latin that isn't present in other indo-european languages from the same era.

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 21:25:07 2017 No.10436669

>extremely precise while being terse
This seems a little contradictory. Precision requires complexity because you are explicitly trading nuance for exact definition. In doing so you will inevitably get something that's terse.

>no languages quirks
Literally every language has quirks. Read a book.

>consistent as fuck
I hear binary/Assembly/other low-level computer languages are very consistent, save for the occasional bad bit from radiation. Human-readable languages, however, are anything but consistent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 22:01:41 2017 No.10436735 >>10436213 Spanish. Perfectly phonetic. Genders done right, plurals done right, conjugations done right, word order done right, alphabet done right.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 22 23:01:25 2017 No.10436870 >>10436213 Ithkuil

Anonymous Fri Dec 22 23:03:05 2017 No.10436873

>>10436213
Overall: Ithkuil, no question.
Only natural: Some agglutinative language probably, there are many so it's hard to decide on the best, without a proper and labourious study. But the structure that all employ, is the best for your criteria.

Also, in regards to language, everyone is extremely bias and retarded. They'll just suggest languages they know of, or like already. So unless you take a "scientific" approach, discussion is irritating and fruitless (See this retard: >>10436735)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 01:29:14 2017 No.10437248 >>10436219 What a fucking joke. Latin is THE MOST complicated language ever spoken. There are exceptions to rules and exceptions to exceptions not just with syntax but grammar as well

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 01:52:11 2017 No.10437316 >>10437248 You clearly have no acquaintance with Ancient Greek or Sanskrit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 01:53:52 2017 No.10437322 >language quirks What does that even mean? Are you perhaps retarded?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 01:56:00 2017 No.10437328 File: 2.21 MB, 200x197, OP.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10436213 >wants language to be precise and terse

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 01:59:56 2017 No.10437341 >>10436485 no you fucking weeb

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:01:10 2017 No.10437350 File: 97 KB, 1024x759, words-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Chinese

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:04:11 2017 No.10437361 >Far får får får? Nej, får får lam. Other than that, nordic languages are kind of straight forward.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:04:24 2017 No.10437362 >>10436213 no such thing. but by far the fastest large language is mandaring for both speaking and reading. about 20% faster than english for both >>10436221 spanish is one of the sloest langs on the planet. no

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:06:25 2017 No.10437365 >>10437350 All asian languages have a fuck ton of double meanings, so no, not at all.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:10:20 2017 No.10437371 >>10437365 Would it matter if the content+context is shorter than every other languages content?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:11:09 2017 No.10437373 >>10437350 ching chong ding dong i want to torture the falun gong

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:11:53 2017 No.10437374 >>10437373 kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:13:04 2017 No.10437379 >>10437371 I mean it depends on OP's value table, but it would certaintly help.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:17:37 2017 No.10437390 >>10437365 syntactical compleity necessarily increases as the number of potential meanings increases. unless you'd prefer to speak click languages that have the umbers 1, 2 and "many" maybe you should reconsider

Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:18:29 2017 No.10437393

>>10437373
You think you're so funny, huh? >haha bullying this kid!
Step off. Step off from this website. >wahhh is teh babby gonna cwy? wahh!
Go outside right this instance and get a freaking job or something. It's soooo funny making fun of a language? Well, well you could be outside playing in the rain puddles, but no. DID YOU HEAR ME?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:24:05 2017 No.10437413 Lithuanian

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:28:34 2017 No.10437423 File: 16 KB, 300x301, 300px-Doublesguy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10437393 Chinese Japanese dirty knees look at these

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:33:42 2017 No.10437435 >>10437423 You're like a child...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:34:14 2017 No.10437439 >>10436262 >We have male and female terms for things such as actor and actress >this is the same as randomly labeling every inanimate object male or female

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:34:54 2017 No.10437440 >>10437350 What the fuck, of course not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:37:57 2017 No.10437446 >>10436350 I disagree and anyone that says a certain word order is narrower to truth is making a mad pseud point that hides its patriotism. Wondering how many anons could read it even

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:40:17 2017 No.10437453 >>10437440 Nice argument. I'll frame that one on the ol' fridge.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 02:59:10 2017 No.10437482 >>10437453 Does it still work? What's the power usage? Is it roomy? Why don't you buy a new one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 03:02:18 2017 No.10437489 >>10437350 All you'd have to do is develop a system where the letters of words are arranged in a certain way to make a "character" and you would shorten English by a factor of 5.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 04:47:19 2017 No.10437619 >>10436213 Haskell

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 04:49:52 2017 No.10437623 >>10437619 :^)

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 04:53:54 2017 No.10437629 File: 218 KB, 300x300, 136383739541 - 03 - .gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >english >you have to spell your name or surname sure, very functional

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 04:56:40 2017 No.10437633 >>10436463 >American >art

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 06:07:13 2017 No.10437750 >>10437350 >Logograms That's about as far from OP's criteria as possible.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 06:34:30 2017 No.10437786 >>10437619 >Hasklel

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 06:47:54 2017 No.10437801 >>10436407 >functional >9342 cases

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 07:07:08 2017 No.10437819 >>10436213 >>10436213 If you ask for the grammatical vs lexicographic character, it's ancient Greek according to Saussure.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 07:09:38 2017 No.10437822 >>10436233 Only correct answer in this thread Esperanto was literally invented to fulfill OP's criteria

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 07:11:33 2017 No.10437826 >>10437316 you're right but still its definitely not latin

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 07:19:44 2017 No.10437841 >>10437435 NO FUN NO FUN >>10437423 >>10437373 Masterful, delightful, exquisite.

Anonymous Sat Dec 23 07:26:54 2017 No.10437848

>>10437822
Good luck finding the 5 people who speak it. And it's not like it was made by an Iain M Banks supercomputer, designed to make the ultimate language. It was made by an idealistic; which I can respect, but if you're idealistic and don't put out for your promises then you can fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 07:44:21 2017 No.10437881 >>10436213 arabic

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 08:26:32 2017 No.10437950 >>10436735 this

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 08:32:25 2017 No.10437952 File: 57 KB, 500x500, MIT_GNU_Scheme_Logo.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10436213

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 08:58:12 2017 No.10437982 >>10436213 Ithkuil.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:10:47 2017 No.10437999 Mathematics

Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:31:15 2017 No.10438023
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>>10436735
i mean it still has a few annoyances like silent h and b=v (and s=z=c if you speak southamerican spanish) that you have to memorize to learn how to write words, but yeah otherwise it's nice and it has only 5 vowel sounds instead of having 19 like meme english

still english it's easy to learn, i'm not sure spanish verbs are going to be easy to most people, we have like 4+ different meme past forms and we use all of them often in normal conversation

Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:34:29 2017 No.10438029
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>>10436317
finnish pronunciation of words is pretty fun, language seems useless otherwise but i'd learn it just to have fun speaking it

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:36:32 2017 No.10438033 >>10436485 >no language quirks >meme writing no

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:37:54 2017 No.10438036 File: 149 KB, 666x666, hermetic-quote-guenon-essential-any-manifestation.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10436543

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:39:49 2017 No.10438040 >>10437362 >spanish is one of the sloest langs on the planet. no just speak faster then

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:40:00 2017 No.10438041 German would have been great if not for the genders. >4 cases >4 tenses >simple and rigid sentence structure 90% of studying German is the fucking das, den, die, dem, denen, dessen, deren shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:42:00 2017 No.10438046 >>10438041 i like reading german, too bad it sounds like garbage

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:49:23 2017 No.10438057 >>10438046 I'm learning German right now, and I honestly don't mind that it sounds shit. It's not like you would ever want to speak with Germans anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 09:49:25 2017 No.10438058 >>10438046 It sounds fine, but unless you're a native, it's impossible not to misgender the nouns.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:24:52 2017 No.10438266 File: 72 KB, 249x249, 1503847882726.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Serbian

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:34:18 2017 No.10438297 >>10438046 It can sound great you dummkopf

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:35:20 2017 No.10438302 >>10438041 >German >simple and rigid sentence structure To be fair, this is true for everyday language, but not really for literature

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:37:32 2017 No.10438306 >>10438297 i guess it can sound decent and human if you include austrian, but i wouldn't say great

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:39:26 2017 No.10438310 >>10437848 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto >estimated 2 million speakers

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:41:24 2017 No.10438316 >>10438310 that's nothing

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:42:17 2017 No.10438319 Mathmatics.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 11:44:23 2017 No.10438324 >>10438316 it's a little more than 5

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 12:00:30 2017 No.10438369 >>10436213 math

Anonymous Sat Dec 23 12:19:39 2017 No.10438421

>>10436243
English is retarded . 'You will have a new teacher' -unless you have additional info you will never know if it's a man or woman until you see them (hopefully). And fucking why are there genders for *some* words like actor and actress ? But I guess this generlessness suits the feminazis and SJW fucktards quite well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 12:25:59 2017 No.10438437 >>10438421 Animates which have a biological gender have gender in English; those without, do not. It's quite simple.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 12:28:34 2017 No.10438443 Ithkuil is the tersest constructed language I've ever seen, and Sanskrit of the natural languages.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 13:49:58 2017 No.10438681 >>10437801 >implying the fuck know how many cases matter at all

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 15:54:51 2017 No.10439160 Aramaic or ancient hebrew

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 16:42:17 2017 No.10439293 >>10436235 >What is the most functional language >Most Unless they're all somehow equal, fuck off. Also my answer is mathematic notation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 16:46:34 2017 No.10439307 >>10436262 Your retarded

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 16:52:07 2017 No.10439322 Ithkuil

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 17:01:55 2017 No.10439358 >>10439293 >math >a language we're gonna have to fuck off together, homie blue

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 23 17:12:18 2017 No.10439405 >>10437350 will you fucking chinks gtfo? You shit up every thread, I can't stand you people

Anonymous Sat Dec 23 22:45:19 2017 No.10440621

>>10438036
Ok so at first he talks about cycles, which is somewhat unrelated to my question. And I suppose what I should get from the second part is that latin is like that due to having time to develop? Having been used from BC up until the Middle Ages. That's what I got from "The reason is that the development of any manifestation necessarily implies a gradually increasing distance from the principle from which it proceeds."

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 24 00:15:12 2017 No.10440830 >>10436870 >>10436873 finally someone mentions a conlang

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 24 01:01:34 2017 No.10440908 >>10436233 >>10436870 These, and maybe Lojban are the actual answers here. Natural languages are messy. Esperanto is actually learnable and spoken by loads of people around the world. The other two, maybe not.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 24 02:34:25 2017 No.10441083 Hindi, you fucking chutiyas

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 24 10:43:56 2017 No.10441903 >>10436213 Turkish unironically. >şimdiki yıl >not speaking an agglutinative language

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 24 15:03:52 2017 No.10442704 >>10436219 apsolutely not.

Anonymous Sun Dec 24 15:41:46 2017 No.10442843

>>10440621
Not OP, but here are my two cents:

Latin is incredibly economic and condensed because words refer to very specific concepts and they don’t suffer the burden of accumulated meaning that ultimately restricts the usage. You can see this by looking at how prefixes function in the language. Here’s an example:

Latin verb: suppono, supponere
Prefix of sub- (under) + pono, ponere (to place, to put, etc.)
Romans would have understood this as fundamentally meaning “to put under.” We get our English “to suppose” directly from this Latin word. In Latin, it can mean “to suppose” as well—because when you “suppose” something logically, you’re more or less “putting it under” the rest of your argument and building upon it. Except English speakers don’t intuitively think about a “supposition” in that way — it’s more or less divorced from its root at this point in that sense. If you want to express the idea of “building an argument,” you literally have to spell it out with some such phrase. Whereas the Latin “suppono” still captures something of that fundamental logical act when you use it in that context AS WELL AS serving in a multitude of other capacities. So you could say that Latin verbs are more syntactically expressive of the concepts they mean, whereas English words are far enough removed from their linguistic origin that they’ve become more or less arbitrary symbols for the intended meaning.

Anonymous Sun Dec 24 16:06:34 2017 No.10442914

Spanish is by far the most simple language I've ever learned. There are barely any irregular verbs, everything is pronounced exactly as written, there are NO declensions, the gender is generally clear from the stem, only a handful of verb tenses. I became a fluent reader in Spanish in 6 months of moderate study, then got my ass reamed by Attic Greek, which I still can't read in after a year of study.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 24 16:17:11 2017 No.10442959 autism

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 24 16:58:17 2017 No.10443157 >>10436219 yes a language that no ones speaks is the most functional >Actually reported

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