I’ve watched this at least 20 times today

so, basically, when I build my time machine, I am limited to going back ~1000 years. noted for future reference.

Just have this video on hand

In Dutch the word for black is Zwart and in German it's Schwarz. I wonder why in English it was changed to black at some point.

*runs to chat GPT

Sometimes I rather have someone explain it to me from a personal perspective instead of jumping to the first search engine or AI result. I'm starting to dislike clankers.

@jakerattlesnk Clanka, please

A lot of German in there.. interesting..

Almost like we share an ancestral lineage hey

It occurs to me that "sweart" is probably the word origin for "swarthy."

You just gotta take this guy with you.

@DeanChatt Using BCE and CE is simply fake and gay

It sounded very Dutch aroun 800.

Old English sounds like a mix of Scandinavian and Dutch.

i'm simultaneously impressed and dumbfounded, with no way of knowing if anything he's saying is true , or how I would even begin to go about fact-checking it. i'll just take his word for it.

"Swarthy" then comes from the Saxon for "black". Never thought about that.

In Swedish, "svart" is black, and "black" is when you are broke.

In Swedish "black" is the pale wild horse color, like the color of a Fjord horse.

BCE?

All the people that understood him

That guy is super interesting and has an incredible depth of knowledge in linguistics. But you just know he spent most of high school inside a locker lol

How the hell do we know what it sounded like in 5000BC? I can sort of buy that we can know what English sounded like in the 1500s since Shakespeare's plays have been passed down from Generation to Generation, but don't buy that we have any clue what it sounded like before that.

I enjoyed this in a way I can neither understand nor articulate.

The older word, "Sweart" for "black." Why in older literature, even up to the 1800's, you see the word, "swarthy" for dark complexions - not just African. Just, darker hair and skin, like Lincoln.

Yet strangely, the Welsh language, even older than English, has remained virtually the same.

Any person who uses the terms 'CE' and 'BCE' is intellectual trash.

5000 BCE (7000 years ago) becomes a bit speculative, I think. That's almost 2000 years before the Yamnaya.

"CE" - OP is retarded

@lokutus Why does he low key look like a mix of Steve from Stranger Things and Ashley from The Boys? 😅

How tf did anyone get anything done in 5000 BCE

@Sideways440 Imma be honest it depends on the area. I could go to some parts of England, Scotland, or Jamaica TODAY and not understand a single word.

Gets more German as you travel back in time...

How does anyone know what language sounded like in 5000 BC? The first Sumerian pictographs didn’t emerge till around 3200 BC.

BC/AD* uncultured swine

Interesting. But we have no idea what any language sounded like in 5000 bc

@nrken19 I like how the older English sound more Germanic. It goes to show how modern English has diverged quite a bit from its roots.

from that one language spoken 7000 years ago, emerged gazillion of languages; slavic, italic, germanic, indian, persian, greek, armenian

So THATS where swarthy comes from

And even today we still have "swarthy" for skin, complexion and the like.

He went all the way to Proto Indo-European at the end lol.