Romanians and Pelasgians

Reply to [https://rdrama.net/h/mnn/post/329733/russian-natural-gas-deliveries-to-europe/7563630#context].

!schizomaxxxers Note that he says this because he's Romanian and they're not Slavs. I've had Romanians try to talk me down from this but I have a schizotheory where I suspect that actually they're some of the "Celts" recorded in the Balkans by the Greeks c. 400 BC. I mean think about.

• They speak a Romance language†. Has anyone proven that the Celts in northern Italy didn't?

• The Greeks never really gave a shit about about classifying languages††, that's mostly an 1800s German form of autism.

• You had all these people going up and down the Danube. The Thracians, the Triballi, the Scordisci or something.

† This is the best argument I've heard against my schizo-position: I point out that that I can read Romanian almost as well as French. So surely all the Gauls must be related. It can't be that far off. But I was told that in the 1800s there was a deliberate effort to change the Romanian language to be more French, which would explain a heck of a lot. I was reading highly technical stuff about archaeology which is a billion times easier than actually having a real conversation with someone. That's exactly the kind of topic where everything is a loan word.

†† There are frustrating exceptions to this. It comes up in Herodotus, Thucydides, the Suda. 90% of the time these people don't give a shit about the language people are speaking. I mean have you ever actually read the Odyssey? Star Trek gets shit on for everyone speaking English but these guys sail all over without a universal translator and they do just fine. But there are these notable exceptions where they point out language differences. One is really fricking obvious, that the Etruscans/Tyrrhennians in Italy are from Anatolia but there's also the Pelasgians and various other groups in the southern Aegean.

!historychads Talk me from down from having controversial views before I get put in a straightjacket. I think I just pissed off both Italian and Greek nationalists, the most powerful forces in the world. Please ask the Albanian nationalists to help me. Don't worry, they already know me.