endcant:

i found out about a language with one recorded word left a few weeks ago and i can’t stop thinking about it

i was reading random stuff and the reference to “the sole recorded word” of a language just struck me in a way. but i can really only just look at the one word there is and think about how a whole society once spoke a whole language and now there’s one word left to speak for that language. one word left that that society spoke. and people make all kinds of speculations about that society based on the one and only known word. just a random word that someone bothered to write in a document that happened to survive til now. just one word left. just one word.

there is a very specific range of years you have to have been a Kirk/Spock slash fan to see the word “sandalwood” and be automatically primed to misread the phrase “twol (ridge)”