Thread 513564814

What are the political implications of languages losing their declensions over the course of history? What is behind this development? Is it engineered by the elite? Ancient Greek had more cases than modern Greek. Proto-Indo-European had more cases than classical Latin and ancient Greek. German is losing cases/declensions as we speak. English and Swedish used to be declined/inflected languages like German and Latin but today it's all gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension#Languages_that_lost_their_declension_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language#Background

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language#Increase_in_analyticity

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>>513564814 (OP)
It's because languages aren't manmade, rather come from God and are eventually eroded over time due to the corruption of mankind and the influence of the devil.
>I'll give you this one pity bump since you samefagged just to bump this.

>>513568797
What exactly is being corrupted? If analytic languages are corrupted forms of synthetic languages, why is Lojban an analytic language? It's a constructed language designed to be as precise as possible, to have no syntactic ambiguity.

>>513564814 (OP)
It is simple my retarded friend.
Human brain have limited capacity. When the tech and life was easy the language was complicated because the brain had a lot of space to have it complicated.
Nowadays you have a lot more of shit to talk about and to learn about so you do not have time and brain space to dwell in retarded grammatical structures that actually serve no purpose.
I.e. Polish actually had past perfect. Now it is gone because it is useless in todays world.
English have 16 time tenses but in everyday speech you use maybe half of them and some conditionals from time to time. In the next decades english will probably also drop perfect tenses.

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There's this meme here on /pol about African languages having no future tense hence we are devolving into niggers and the political implication is obviously warlordism.

>>513564814 (OP)
Books separate man from beast

Syntax has degraded towards phonology- how thry sound, perceptions of shared meaning. The language becomes little more a series of mating grunts.

Etymology frees the mind, and disciplines its form

Finnish is interesting because it has a lot of endings/suffixes but they're very regular and each suffix has one meaning, you just paste them onto words. In Latin the suffixes have multiple meanings simultaneously such as gender and number and it's not totally regular either as far as I know. Finnish is an agglutinated language, Latin a fusional language, both being synthetic languages, English is an analytic language.

>>513564814 (OP)
>declensions
That’s faggot talk

>>513564814 (OP)
Pointless complexity is bad and inefficient

>>513571987
It's just a word for the endings in the OP pic. English and Swedish don't have it. I didn't learn about until I started learning Latin. I actually studied German before but it must have been a bad course because I didnt learn much.

>>513572255
Well I don't know if it's pointless. To have a different word form for subject than for object seems pretty good to me, for example.