Crazy Linguistic Theories (ft. Lichen, Babelingua, and Agma Schwa)

edo nyland is so real like, basques walked so the alpidoid macrogroup could run

"Oh look, something interesting with Basque" "Every language is fake!" Well, that escalated quickly.

Considering the Finno–Korean Hyper War, which without a doubt happend, Finnish being Proto–World appear to be highly sensical, which is why I choose to believe in it.

I like the part where nyland couldn't deal with chinese because it was the only tonal language he bothered with

If we are talking about crazy language-related people, then I have one more to the collection. There is a Polish guy called Benon Szałek, a self-proclaimed “heuristics specialist”, who has published at least a dozen of books describing how every language is related to either Tamil or Japanese, and saying that everything comes from now-nonexistent Dravidian empire in Central Asia. He even claims to have undeciphered the Linear A, Indus Valley and Rongorongo scripts, all of which of course depict a Dravidian language, because how can they not. I’m currently working on a video about him myself, because that guy genuinely caught me off guard when I was looking through the university library linguistic section.

My personal theory is that the Basque-Icelandic pidgin was an original language that separated into Basque and all Germanic languages, which evolved backwards for a small period of time

I spoke with Nyland. He was “dedicated” to his theories (read: blinkered and obsessive). The main issue (aside the insanity of it) was loan words in Basque. They got used in his “decoding” process along with native words. So, a lot of his work was flawed before you even process the fact it was bat s**t crazy.

Ogham is well known to be ancient Irish, and is well understood. Did Nyland simply ignore anything that didn't suit his thesis?

My favourite crazy linguistic theory is that the Beach Boys time-travelled by accident while performing Barbara Ann, and the Ancient Greeks thought "wow, these guys are weird" and reused the sounds to make what we now know as the word "barbarian"

Agma Scwa's reading was so intense I almost wasn't distracted by the Lapis Lazuli waifu pillow.

The idea that someone ever had any success getting people to speak a conlang is the most ridiculous part of this whole ordeal, as any conlanger can attest

After all these years it's finally here 🙌

OOF I straight up forgot we even recorded this. 11/10 video

Talking about John Lily and saying "LSD was involved" is always an understatement

As a flemish guy it is so funny that Nyland wanted to destroy Flemish, which is not even a language and just a particular Dutch dialect, but wanted to combine other languages. Don't be shy about your dutch it sounds good, if a Dutch guy says your g is not throathy enough, just say you like the flemish accent more and you are earning that.

12:22 "All highly developed languages on Earth except for possibly Chinese have been shown to be developed from the original Saharan language" Well that was just random, lol.

the amount of pure pain i was inflicted at 7:35 when he said Germany and showed a Belgian flag is indescribable

Ah yes, my fave genre of YouTube is stickman PowerPoint presentations based on entertaining facts and knowledge of the world mixed with a side of humor. And I will always love it no matter what.

This video took me a year to make and is the reason I got burned out and made nothing last summer :P

That last one was a hell of a ride. Somehow dude convinces himself that the Homeric epics actually took place in Scotland, then this leads him down a rabbit hole where the Basques are the last remnants of a lost Saharan master race and every other language in the world is a conlang created by monks to enforce the patriarchy.