Re: My Hate List (Revised)

Am Dienstag000011, 11.02.2025 um 17:23 schrieb Physfitfreak:

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When a language is spoken, the speakers of that language automatically share features and traits. How old is German language?

VERY old.
German could possibly be among the oldest languages on Earth.
At least there exists a writer, who claims, that the Mayas spoke a variant of old German.

There's been German people as far back as German was spoken.
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Well, no..
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A language does not create ethnicity, but is kind of common denominator in any society, because without a common language you cannot speak with each other.
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That's why within a single country (mostly) only a single language is spoken.
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But this would make the language dependent of the land, because land cannot migrate, while people can (and then learn a new language abroad).
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Ok, yes, Germany existed since ancient times, because that piece of Earth' surface existed long ago, even when there were no Germans or even no people at all, but crocodiles and dinosaurs lived in that country.
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But dinos couldn't speak, German is most likely younger than the land.
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TH
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 You're too dumb for my time. Read Luther. Your true teacher.

Luther wasn't Prussian and not a protestant!!!
He was very much a racist and antisemitic, but you can't blame Prussia nor the protestants for this, because Luther was a Catholic.
And you can't call him a German neither, because he could be a citizen of a state, which didn't exist.
And you can't blame Germans for Luther, because 'German' is a language and it's not illegal or immoral to speak German.
German was actually the language of large parts of the Jews (the 'Ashkenazim' - 'Ashkenaz' means actually 'Germany), who were most likely not very antisemitic.
These German speaking people were also not 'Germans', because no country named 'Germany' existed at the time of Luther.
(Germany was created in 1871, which was almost 300 years later).
TH