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German and Dutch are very close languages, but in complete different places in this tree.

So maybe we could use a better platform for understanding? (hence my original point?)

(Modern German and Dutch are both from the West-Germanic tree, last I checked)

specific graphems

Okay, fine, granted-- but how does that actually help anyone in this day & age learn about these languages?

AS IN– dude, we don’t need to carry a master’s degree in order to understand how English formed out of Anglo-Saxon, with Norman French overlaid on top, now do we?

EDIT: Oh rabbits, no, it’s ME whose wrong. Whups…

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I still don’t think you understand the point of the graphic. It’s called “What European language am I reading?”, not “how are these European languages related?”

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Oof. I think you’re right (2wks later, dangit!), Eiim.
Sorry about that. :S

@Servais@discuss.tchncs.de @discuss.tchncs.de, that was rude of me, and I apologise.

FWIW, I’ve posted a general apology in our sub’s general update if you care to look. Sorry again.

@Comment105@lemm.ee,

I’d personally attack you with something far worse than a silly goose. If I was on my reddit account!

Hmm, what do you think about rabbits instead of geese…?

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No worries, thank you for coming back to this comment, even later!

Have a good one!

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but how does that actually help anyone in this day & age learn about these languages?

As people said in another comment, it can be useful in identifying languages in settings like Geoguessr.

Silly goose.

I appreciate the work you do on your European graphical novel community, and on Reddit to promote Lemmy, so I wasn’t expecting this kind of personal attack.

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I’d personally attack you with something far worse than a silly goose. If I was on my reddit account.

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