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That's the thing, right? If it was a completely random anon I could brush it off as someone taking a piss, or someone who's never thought about the topic in any depth and could misinterpret some talk about the history of Czech language. Imagine some rando listening to a talk (by >pic rel Karel Oliva, for instance, who's great at what he does but he doesn't dumb down for the audience) where they rightfully claim that Standard Czech, as taught in school, alongside the ortography, has some elements which are artificially added or modified because of some historicizing principles (ortography preserving i/y despite it merging into one phoneme shortly after Hus' death), fulfilling the national unifiaction role (the final -ý became -ej in major Bohemian dialects but since Moravian dialects and the old Bibles had -ý, people would be taught to write and even pronounce it the other way around in official contexts, though that's not the case anymore). Sure, I could see them making some jumps to arrive at the conclusion that Czech was actually revived as if we could magick Ancient Egyptian back into being if we just got some autist dedicated enough and added an elective in compulsory education in Egypt. It's nonsense, but one that a guy servicing cars could easily start believing in.

But a person who has actually done a degree in this field? That's not sad, that's outright vile. And people like that are even more dangerous in that they have a title which means people are more willing to listen.