I’m not entirely sure what the first spark was, but I’ve always loved tracing the etymologies of words seeing how they transformed from one language to another has always been huge for me, how languages with similar origins could be drastically different.

I’m also in love with “Old English”-like dialogue in fantasy novels.

I think it’s also related to my obsession with comparing programming languages, I’ve spent way more time learning new ones rather than actually writing code, it’s just really fascinating reading about how they approach the same things differently

Bulgarian-rose scented sounds marvellous

While I agree it’s too broad of a statement, I doubt it’s really split along party lines. I feel like most people irl don’t really lean heavily into politics while doing jobs and probably even have well-defined politics. I also don’t think you need to have experienced something firsthand to sympatheze better

Am I the only one who finds the wording ‘accused him of rape’ very icky’