Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:

> >I say we should make everyone in the world learn Icelandic and make that
> >the "official Germanic language of the world" ;-)
>
> Hehe. Icelandic should be the working language of Neo-Nazis International
> (if that exists); it's the Germanic übermensch "pure" language that all the
> chauvinists love. Rasmus Rask, the great 19th century Danish linguist,
> claimed he learnt Icelandic "to learn to think" (it's the old "classical
> languages are more logical" dogma). I, personally, am sick of
> linguo-centrism in Iceland and the indoctrination present in our school
> system.
I was personally somewhat shocked when David Oddsson said at the
festivities for the NATO summit in Washington that Iceland was the
world's oldest democracy.  I mean, am I incorrect that the Althing was
just a local courthouse for virtually all of the last millennium?  I had been
under the impression that all real power since 1380 had been concentrated
in the Danish monarch.  Does Iceland really have that strong of a nationalist
movement?

ObConlang:  does anyone's constructed realities have nationalist movements
centered around their constructed languages?

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Tom Wier   |     "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero."
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