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   「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:45:19 JST 「セル」cell (سل)
   Tamils and Hindis speak two completely separate languages, yet we call them both "Indians"
   
   Germans, Swiss Germans and Austrians speak the same language, yet only one group is called "German"
   
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:45:18 JST snacks

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     @cell austria and switzerland where sweating bullets when germany was formed iirc
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:48:21 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @snacks liechtenstein: hehe :neofox_3c:
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     snacks (snacks@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:49:35 JST snacks

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     @rin @cell i can understand yiddish just fine but the adl will prob drone strike me if i say it's just a dialect of low german
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     rin (rin@post.ebin.club)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:49:36 JST rin

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     @cell belarussian and russian = separate languages
     mandarin and cantonese = chinese dialects
     
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:50:43 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     @snacks @rin i mean it would be considered as such, but alas millions of yiddish speakers died out in the 1940s
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     rin (rin@post.ebin.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 19:39:13 JST rin

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     @besserwisser @cell belarussian navy :ARUSeriously:
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     @rin @cell A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 19:39:32 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     @hakui @cell @rin @besserwisser mongolian marine cavalry
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 19:39:33 JST 御園はくい

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     @rin @besserwisser @cell no match for the mongolian navy
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     御園はくい (hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 19:41:36 JST 御園はくい

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     @hj @besserwisser @cell @rin seahorse archers
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     vaartis running up that hill (vaartis@pl.kotobank.ch)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 20:09:08 JST vaartis running up that hill

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     @rin @cell @besserwisser BELARUS MENTIONED (my father was in the navy but that was in USSR so they sent him to Russia and Poland)
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