Basque Monks

What is Basque Monks?

1.

/bask mʌŋks/

noun

1. According to infamous linguist Edo Nyland's rather ludicrous theories, these benedictines created the majority of all modern languages using abbreviated phrases in a hypothetical vasconic language he terms "Saharan."

Person 1: ...and guess what! Stalinisn't really derived from the Russian word for steel; it's really an abbreviation of the Basque phrase "astapotro alienatu inola."

Person 2: Those crazy Basque Monks...

See basque, indo-european, linguistics
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