i like this marsey its the best 
language 
I'm thinking 
I should 
learn 
an ancient 
language 
Latin seems fun but it's too basic 
b-word 
to learn 
(at least as my first 
ancient 
language) and I already had to do some grammar 
classes on highschool so it's also too easy
I'm thinking 
maybe ancient hebrew 
is the least studies out of the big 3 of Latin 
Greek 
and Hebrew
But what are the other options/what will make me stand out the most as the cool esoteric 
intellectual 
I am
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Cuneiform Akkadian, Sumerian
, Maya 
, Proto-indoeuropean. Not an "ancient language" but Old Norse, or perhaps that one is too mainstream among philology nerds.
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Sanskrit is a pretty popular one.
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!kino !antibharatiya
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This scene was so fricking r-slurred
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Florence Pugh tits were a bit of a disappointment
tbh.
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I specifically want the opposite of popular, I want to be snobby
about it
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I meant popular with snobby pseuds.
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Sanskrit would
be really 
cool to learn 
if India 
didn't exist, alas it has been corrupted
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My other suggestion would be Nahuatl.
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Latin and Greek obviously
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Sanskrit. All the others are too mainstream or just too irrelevant to the modern world. How different is ancient hebrew from nu hebrew? They used to teach greek and latin in public schools before they became majority brown
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In what way is sanskrit "relevant" to the modern world?
All dead languages are useless, people learn them either to become academics or as a passion hobby. Sanskrit is about as relevant as latin and classical greek.
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It's far less relevant than greek or latin. It also isn't a made up reconstructed language like PIE and is the second oldest attested IE language with a much larger corpus than hittite.
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Sanskrit has Indian
texts, Latin 
and Greek 
have med towelboy books. Easy choice 
really.
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Sanskrit isn't really non-mainstream especially if you want to understand Buddhism.
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Indo-European is extremely straggy and basically just a very rough outlook at how old languages would have looked like.
Learn Linear B, start mycenaeanmaxxing and shit
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Oh shit I didn't even think
of linear B good one
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Great
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BIPOC !
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I think aramaic. Taleb has a note about it and it made me think that bragging about knowing aramaic has to be the snobbiest thing imaginable.
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Taleb seething every time someone calls the Lebanese dialect "Arabic" is hilarious, he's aggressively anti-arabic.
The aramaic he studies is "syriac" which is still spoken by some minorities in the Levant region.
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They used to speak it in the mountains above Tripoli, Lebanon but it died out about a century ago. As far as I know it's down to just one town in Syria now.
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That's kinda sad
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The language of the ancient Ligmatians they used to inscribe on pairs of spheres
All you need is 2 ligma balls lmao goteem
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Aramaic
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fortran
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People still use Fortran for certain niche stuff doing science on supercomputers tho. You gotta go for COBOL.
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Indian smoke signals
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Aramaic.
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Akkadian
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I think
this is the right 
choice 
since it apparently also helps with Sumerian, which is also cool
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Ελληνική εστί Β Ε τ τ Ε ρ
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Do Navajo really rake yourself over the coals
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Oh yeah avestan is also a very snobby choice. And maybe somewhat relevant to jewish history, angelology and eschatology. But it has a really small corpus. Getting into completely hipster territory like tocharian and undeciphered texts
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Greek, obviously.
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Something from South America or one of the earlier versions of Latin, far more contrarian.
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Maybe Greek since it's the classical snobby language. I'd say ancient Japanese / Chinese dialect and speech since not even chinks care about that shit
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Sumerian, akkadian, you could at least learn to write idk about speaking them, it might be fun to learn to write cuneiform
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cunnyform
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Aramaic, hieroglyphs, or find one of the obscure languages that's dying out in our lifetime.
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