Pretending to Understand Sanskrit

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious [having more cases] than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of the verbs and in the forms of the grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason ... for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic ... had the same origin with the Sanskrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family. i’m just gonna pretend i don’t know what he’s talking about but i literally read about this when i was 12

A blushing cartoon boy enthusiastically presents an extremely academic passage about the Sanskrit language, while a girl pretends not to understand despite having read about it when she was twelve. The joke is about acting casually ignorant while secretly recognizing an unexpectedly obscure topic, making it useful as a reaction to niche knowledge or overcomplicated explanations. EN: A blushing cartoon boy enthusiastically presents an extremely academic passage about the Sanskrit language, while a girl pretends not to understand despite having read about it when she was twelve. The joke is about acting casually ignorant while secretly recognizing an unexpectedly obscure topic, making it useful as a reaction to niche knowledge or overcomplicated explanations.

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