on the idea of slavic not as an ethnic language, but as a lingua franca in early medieval Eastern Europe
the remarkable uniformity of Slavic despite a wide geographical dissemination of the language give you issues if you try to treat it like any other naturally evolving language
is the lingua franca model better suited to explain the historical data?
Nov 7, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
it's amazing how much wrong there is with this thread
modernists above all were concerned with living conditions; not only were they not obsessed with originality, it wouldn't even make sense as they went all-in on quantity
