It’s always fun to be reminded how recent European national identities are. Peasants in 1860’s Sicily had never heard the term “Italy” before, the majority of people in France didn’t speak French at the time of the French Revolution, etc.

[when one asks the avarage peasant farmer in the ukraine about his nationality, he will answer, he is "greek-orthodox"; when one pushes him to say whether he is a russian, a pole, or a ukranian, he will answer, he is a farmer; and when one demands demands to find out which language he speeks, he will say that he speaks "the language from around here". ... i.e. when one wants to find out which state he would like to belong to – whether he would rather be governed by an pan-russian or a specifically ukranian government – one will find out, that in his opinion, all governments are a plague on the land, and it would be best, if the "christian peasantfolk" were left to themselves.]

Photography: avesta rezaeizadeh

Credit: itch13

Now you know.

THIS ONE

i can see it

Oof you were so close to commenting on standardized varieties but then in the last line you veered in the opposite direction and showed a misunderstanding of the most basic concept of linguistics and now I don’t trust anything in this article

Ich geh nicht mehr zur Schule, aber ich hab grad im Radio gehört, dass die Lernplattform Moodle in Baden-Württemberg down ist, weil der Unterricht heute angefangen hat. Deutschland, deine Digitalisierung.