| 26 Oct 2023 |
|  .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT changed their display name from .madpro#0 to .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT. | 21:45:09 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | I never elaborated on this did I? | 21:45:10 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | Eh, might as well | 21:45:16 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | So the OG Cult of Linguists group was split between Quora and Whatsapp | 21:45:31 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | A group of language nerds who found each other over the internet, as it were | 21:46:12 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | That was circa 2017, a different world but a similar time. | 21:47:52 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | See the thing with linguistics is that we don't have influencers, Language learners do, like there's a ton of colorful people on YouTube and Twitter. | 21:48:39 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | So most of us read books and there are definitely some of our members who just hoard mounds of language books, because that's all you are capable of doing at an amateur level | 21:49:54 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | But as we continued to attract @Professionals: Historians, People Specialized in Rare Languages, Historial Linguistics, Pscyholinguistics and so on; they found theirselves more comfortable on Twitter than Whatsapp, Quora or Discord which were all childish by comparision | 21:51:09 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | So in twos and threes people began migrating to Twitter. In hopes that they would find more professionals. The follower/following dichotomy Twitter advocates was perfect for many people who were shy and just wanted to watch "experts". | 21:52:21 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | That of course hampered their ability to become experts themselves, as they accepted to become an audience instead of actors themselves | 21:52:43 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | And so we fell apart; it was easier to be anonymous, unknown, unrepresented and undiscoverable and uneducated than to maintain a tenuous sense of community. | 21:53:59 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | Especially given that we were targetted by fringe groups/haters on multiple occasions. We're talking actual f*scists and megalomaniacs who just don't like to see people having fun, y'know | 21:54:37 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | Some of our members have contributed to https://wikitongues.org/ | 21:56:19 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | Else, we have in large part been written out of history | 21:56:26 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | and that's why it's dead silent here 🌬️ | 21:56:39 |
| 28 Oct 2023 |
|  Charlie-bot changed their display name from Carl-bot to Charlie-bot. | 23:20:50 |
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| 12 Nov 2023 |
 franckky | Who's interested in joining it? I'm going to write a historic grammar book of ancient greek. Basically I'm going to add up different sources, to create one quite complete
I'm going to create a discord Chanel, I need someone who's good at historical linguistics
I'm looking for someone who's interested in generalising the rules of language evolution from Proto-Indo-European to our modern European languages
https://discord.com/invite/xJwmxZpu | 23:13:08 |
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| 14 Nov 2023 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | Ig random language survey: what do you folks speak? write? or maybe what are you learning? | 13:36:14 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT changed their profile picture. | 13:36:14 |
| .ENLIGHTENED DESPOT | * sign? | 13:36:20 |
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| rinalds010 | Hey y'all. I have an old bible, but I don't know which language it's in | 00:50:07 |
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