Histories of languages:

French: Some germans started speaking latin, then later the ones living in paris decided that all the other ones in france should speak the same kind of latin

Spanish: Someone tried speaking italian and arabic at the same time

Italian: Some fucking weirdo decided that the whole country should speak a dialect based on poetry from the 13th century

English: When some different germans got beat up by the germans from earlier and learned some latin words

German: Some very angry germanic tribesman in a forest got together and decided to invent a terrifying language no one could understand

Kurdish: Some time around 1900 everyone decided to start using that language from old poetry. But also none of the agree on what the standard for that language is or understand each other

@Concerned_Commy Lithuanian: someone up in like bumfuck northeastern Europe decided that whole changing the way you speak over time thing was in fact patent nonsense
@Thaminga @Concerned_Commy Finnish: some people who left What's Now Probably Hungary-ish? wandered into Scandinavia and didn't want to learn the local language so they just changed the spelling in theirs to fit in

@theoutrider @Thaminga @Concerned_Commy

And they also thought prepositions were silly and so created a case for every single thing you might need one for

@Shutsumon @Thaminga @Concerned_Commy and the ones they didn't they instead have suffixes for
@Concerned_Commy @Thaminga @Shutsumon (though I'm not sure how much of the absurd grammar is just a Finno-Ugric thing)
@theoutrider @Concerned_Commy @Thaminga Hungarian and Estonian certainly have a large number of cases that cover prepositions as do the Sami languages I believe so it looks like a general Uralic thing
@Thaminga @Concerned_Commy @theoutrider when you conlang for a hobby you spend a lot of time looking at how other languages do things so you don't end up with a complex cipher for English
@Shutsumon @Thaminga @theoutrider I need to give a serious go at conlanging at some point