[edcoil]

How Do You Learn a Dead Language?

Tape recorder.

I am sure she has been taped over the years and translated along with the other 19 mentioned.

But why would you want to learn a language no one else knows?

[tired1]

“But why would you want to learn a language no one else knows?”

i think it has something to do with Bush and global warming.

[vikingd00d]

>>But why would you want to learn a language no one else knows?

So nobody else can listen in when you talk to yourself. :)

[L,TOWM]

Kind of reminds of the classic question in Strategic Business Management classes:

“Who bought the first telephone offered for sale? And Why?”

[shekkian]

But why would you want to learn a language no one else knows?

Military tactical communications?