![]() ![]() The previous subs posted here, Wide Na Show, 20140121, (Matsumoto Hitoshi, Fujimoto Miki, Takeda Tetsuya), has a segment mentioning Utada Hikaru. That’s what did and it has a pretty huge catalogue, too. If you think about how indecipherable internet slang – like 4chan slang and greentext – is to the common English speaker, think about translating internet slang of another language (from no less than the origin of 4chan-style internet forums) to the common English speaker. What I find amazing about is that it is an accurate and faithful translation of the raw comments of Japanese netizens. It’s probably something between Reddit and 4chan in terms of the conversations and content that comes out (4chan was inspired by Futaba Channel, which was inspired by 2channel. It translated excerpts from 2channel, which is a Japanese textboard, or message board, or forum, whatever you call that. I am aware that /r/asklinguists exists but I figured that I would get the best response is unfortunately not active, but it’s an amazing site. Maybe there used to be many more language families, but most of them went extinct in prehistory. Perhaps the language families of Africa are more diverse than I’m giving them credit for, and are really more like a geographic designation of unrelated languages (like “Australian aboriginal”) than a true language family. ![]() ![]() What accounts for the small number of language families in Africa? I am not a linguist but I have a few hypotheses: ![]() Other areas of the world that presumably received their first human inhabitants much later than Africa - like the Caucasus, India, New Guinea and Pre-Columbian North America, seem to have much more diverse ranges of languages (New Guinea having maybe as many as 60 language families). (I’m disregarding Madagascar and the more recent colonial languages like Afrikaans, English, French and so on). We’ve got Afro-asiatic (mostly Semitic) in the north, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo in the middle, and a small pocket of Khoisan in the Southwest. And thousands of different languages are spoken in Africa- but surprisingly few language families. Humans originated in Africa and then spread out from there. The book, written by someone who is not a specialist in Western Europe, shows the myriad "modernities" that started emerging in the long 19th century and showing how the Western, eventually dominant one, interacted with th
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