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by bee_rider 509 days ago
This point of view was basically covered in the interview.

> I grew up in a French household, and I often feel that there are French words and expressions that better capture what I want to express than any English word or expression could.

> Eco writes that when European scholars were arguing about what language Adam and Eve spoke, each one typically argued in favor of the language he himself spoke. So Flemish scholars said that Adam and Eve obviously must have spoken Flemish, because Flemish is the most perfect expression of human thought.

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> So Flemish scholars said that Adam and Eve obviously must have spoken Flemish

Obviously the Flemish scholars are blindly biased that's why it's very popular all over the world /s

Seriously, any great book or literature using Flemish that is considered a golden standard in Flemish as the Quran is? The book that's read every minutes around the world and memorized entirely, continously generations after generations? Fun facts, even the Pope do not memorized the entire Gospel let alone the entire Bible including the Old Testaments.