"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 11/17/2017 at 18:31 • Filed to: None

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gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 11/17/2017 at 19:03

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Interesting. When I was taking Russian, I was told the word for “German” translates to “mute”. As in people who can’t talk, because they don’t speak Russian. It’s almost the same world in Polish.

InFierority Complex > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 11/17/2017 at 19:12

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It’s fairly common in a lot of the Slavic languages I think.

AuthiCooper1300 > InFierority Complex 11/17/2017 at 19:54

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Indeed. Nemec, Nemeth, Nimitz... all those surnames have the same origin!

AuthiCooper1300 > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 11/17/2017 at 19:56

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“Mute” and “dumb” are synonyms in quite a few languages, and by extension can mean “foreign” or “foreigner” in some. Have a look at the origin of “barbarian”. It is a very similar phenomenon:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barbarian

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > InFierority Complex 11/17/2017 at 21:00

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Yeah, a lot of Slavic languages are very similar.