> what is shocking about esk is how little the language reflects germanic and celtic influences. because pepiks are a fake artificial nation with a fake artificial language that was fully reconstructed in the 19th century like hebrew, after czechs gradually stopped speaking it as a result of forced germanization after the failure of the anti-german hussite wars of the early 1400s and especially after the battle of white mountain in 1620. the czech culture basically ceased to exist and was practiced in a rudimentary form only by some peasants, and even then not all of them, as many were the german settlers in fact the intellectuals behind "czech" "nationalism" in the 19th century who re-created the czech language were germans themselves. about as czech as nietzsche was polish - just larpers. eventually the peasants latched onto it as they advanced socially due to industrialization and movement to cities
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