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The Frisian Perspective on "Talking to a Frisian Farmer in Friesland with Old English" (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/humanities@beehaw.org
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This gets a bit into the linguistic weeds, and if you're familiar with Dutch or High German, the errors are somewhat comical, especially with SVO vs. SOV. But overall an interesting exploration and distraction.

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[โ€“] KevinFromSpace@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_freedom

[โ€“] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for this! I knew nothing about the region ahead of watching the video, and some of their concepts from 800 years ago would be useful for today's leaders to bear in mind.