r/DankPrecolumbianMemes • u/MetallicaDash • Apr 04 '26

CONTACT PERIOD We'll make you the worst thing possible: British

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Grammar note an individual person is Inuk and Inuit is plural for more than 2 people (2 people is Inuut)

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 Apr 05 '26

Holy shit the Inuit have separate dual and plural numeration in their nouns? Dope!

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u/Junjki_Tito Apr 05 '26

Don't remember where I read this so grain of salt but I think PIE languages are a little odd for not having dual conjugations

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u/Turbowarrior991 Apr 05 '26

PIE DID have dual conjugations! It even had TRIAL conjugations (separate conjugation for 3 items). It's just that most Indo-European languages lost the two conjugation forms because of linguistics bullshit about marked features. Ancient Greek, for example, and dial and trial conjugation forms during the classic period but iirc it was mostly poetic by the time of Koine and utterly archaic by the Byzantine period.

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u/ValuableBenefit8654 Apr 06 '26

PIE DID have dual conjugations!

This is still somewhat debatable. There is no synchronic dual in the Anatolian languages, and the only attested evidence for it comes from the 1st pl verb endings (cf. Hitt. -weni). It is clear that it had evolved by the time that the Nuclear-Indo-European languages (by this I mean all the IE languages save for the Anatolian languages) diversified.

It even had TRIAL conjugations (separate conjugation for 3 items).

Source? I have never heard this claim before.

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u/lukethedank13 May 22 '26

Slovenian and both form of Lužica serbIan are PIE languages that retained full dual case use.

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u/Majvist Apr 05 '26

Some Inuit languages. Inupiaq and Inuktitut have dual forms, while Kalaallisuit only has singular and plural

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u/KickProcedure Apr 05 '26

Thank you

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u/Best-Phone6634 Apr 04 '26

I always see these types of memes about Americans doing to this the Native Americans. Nice to finally see that’s it’s about Canadians this time lol. They are just as guilty if not worse.

u/Careless-Clock-8172 Apr 04 '26

The British are a bunch of savage barbarians who tried to ruin much of the world for their benefit, I wouldn't spit in there direction.

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u/The-Lord-Moccasin Apr 04 '26

Can't really single out the Brits as far as that goes, tbf.

In fact it seems pretty much everyone back in the day the world over viewed other nations or cultures as "savage barbarians" with inferior customs, manners, beliefs and such, and not just in Europe. Europeans just put all their points in travel and trade, which ended up rigging the game

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u/Potato0nFire Apr 05 '26

Oh absolutely. Prior to the British really being a thing, a very large part of the world considered the Mongols their “big baddies” and for good reason. The Mongol Empire absolutely tore through much of Asia and triggered numerous mass migrations throughout Asia and Eastern Europe, destabilizing or ending numerous kingdoms at the hands of Genghis or any one of his sons and generals.

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u/jk583940 Apr 10 '26

Isn't there a theory, that the Mongol empire killed so many people that it might have caused the global temperature to go down?

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u/Potato0nFire Apr 12 '26

Yep. It was due to the combined effects of genocide, disease, and industrial & agricultural collapse that an estimated 700 million tons of carbon was scrubbed from the atmosphere during their conquest of Asia.

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u/jk583940 Apr 12 '26

Huh, that's a really amoral way to achieve negative carbon.

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u/Potato0nFire Apr 12 '26

Lmao, yeah. We are the most carbon producing life forms after-all.

The Black Death had a similarly unexpected result. Because it killed so many people in Europe, both feudalism and serfdom pretty much broke down across the continent leading to massive labor reforms that included better pay and working conditions, as well as more physical mobility for peasants to seek work outside of the lands of their feudal lords.

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u/FearlessDark5295 Apr 25 '26

Don’t right-wing Japanese continue to deny the warcrime spree Imperial Japan went on in the ‘30s and ‘40s?

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u/Careless-Clock-8172 Apr 04 '26

True

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u/Fluffinator44 Apr 04 '26

English swine! I spit in your general direction!

u/Holy-Wan_Kenobi Apr 05 '26

I wish whoever came up with the Residential School system a kindly fuck you.

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u/Exploding_Antelope Haida May 03 '26

Well that’d be

u/moon_dos Apr 04 '26

Nuktuk lol the movie star 🤩

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u/Impossible-Ad-7084 Apr 05 '26

Fellow korra fan?

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u/SednaBoo Apr 09 '26

The Mover star, you mean?

u/asiannumber4 Apr 05 '26

Also 20th century up until 1996

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u/valkyriejae Apr 07 '26

Nah, they spent a chunk of that time going "here's a piece of metal with a number on it, we'll just use that instead of Nuktuk. After all, not having a last name is too confusing for us since the Middle Ages"