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UnderOverPressure t1_j0tnxai wrote

Reply to comment by Thumperings in The Original Fight Club. by Thumperings

Mensur is still practiced today here in Germany. It IS seen as a more right wing thing but I chalk that up to the fact that the average, more left leaning student possibly does not share very conservative views on masculinity like getting scars in combat

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Terpomo11 t1_j0tnbml wrote

Reply to comment by theshredder744 in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289

I would be surprised if it's the closest living language to Sanskrit. Usually the most conservative language varieties are ones spoken in relatively out-of-the-way locations and not the widely-spread lingua francas. Like, say, Lithuanian or Icelandic. That said, it's still much closer to Sanskrit than any Dravidian language.

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Pinkletskillz t1_j0ti3u4 wrote

Reply to comment by atre324 in Ancient Grammatical Puzzle That Has Baffled Scientists for 2,500 Years Solved by Cambridge University Student by Superb_Boss289

I am taking classes in Sanskrit at the moment, and knowing Latin and Ancient Greek (as well as some other PIE languages) is really helping me understand much of the grammar. Those languages as well as Indonesian have been useful for vocabulary too, although you sometimes do need to get into the historical linguistics if you want to recognize the similarities. Above all, it's really a lot of fun studying other languages and seeing the interrelatedness and possibilities of each of them :)

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