• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Spanish people stopped learning greek after smartphones where invented.

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    We used to read shampoo bottles that where usually shipped in Spain with labels in four languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. So it was always funny to try to see how things were written in greek while pooping.

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      I used to do that too! But living in Eastern Europe, our shampoo bottles had like twenty languages. I didn’t manage to learn any, but I did develop a sense of how closely related they were.