Today marks the start of a new series where I take a look at bad (and often hilarious) research and explain its flaws. Episode #1 is about this guy I learned about a while back who claims "all European languages" come from Arabic... yeah.

Remember that I read all of your comments and reply to most, so feel free to leave your thoughts and suggestions down below!

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CHAPTERS

0:00 — Intro
1:25 — The Paper
2:20 — English Pronouns
2:31 — Arabic Pronouns
7:34 — The Comparative Method
13:04 — Conclusion

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CORRECTIONS
• Piscēs is the Latin nominative plural form. The singular is Piscis, though the point with /p/ is still illustrated

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REFERENCES
• [The paper itself] — https://www.macrothink.org/journal/in...
• [Great video on Germanic and Romance languages] —    • How do we determine what languages ar...  
• [Video on language change] —    • Language Change and Historical Lingui...