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boxedtoday at 2:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

In the Spanish colonies they speak Spanish.

In the Portuguese colonies they speak Portuguese.

In the __BLANK__ colonies they speak Hewbrew.

Fill in the blank.


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4gotunameagaintoday at 3:13 PM

Hew brew, as you spell it, is a resurrected language. It was extinct. It was resurrected solely as a tool for jewish nationalism.

newspaper1today at 2:29 PM

Ashkenazi, and only because they made a dedicated effort to switch from their native Yiddish to build the colonization narrative.