La pomme d’eau. La pomme de terre. Le pomme de feu. La pomme d’air. Il y a très longtemps ces quatre patates vivaient en harmonie. Mais un jour, la pomme du feu décida de passer à l’attaque.
i don’t even fucking speak french but I fucking know what that last comment says
I don’t even know. It’s from a book about languages my friend’s been reading. (it’s creepy that I can understand it …)
It was actually invented with that purpose: anyone who spoke any European language should be able to understand esperanto. It was meant to be a lingua franca.
STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING Y’ALL AND TELL ME IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS
Actually, if you really want to know, “Io” (pronounced “yo”) was a Latin … exclamation that sort of meant “Oh” or “Hey”. The common greeting for the holiday of Saturnalia was “Io Saturnalia!”
So we started saying “yo” about 2500 years ago, give or take a few hundred years.
yooooooo
Further back, we get the Greek ‘ἰώ’, an exclamation used in dramatic poetry.
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