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Linguists seek a time when we spoke as one
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| 18 July 2007
| Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Posted on 07/23/2007 7:02:45 AM PDT by BGHater
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:02:48 AM PDT
by
BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:03:20 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(My Tagline will defend freedom.)
To: BGHater
Feel the need to brush up on your Esperanto? LOL
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:05:11 AM PDT
by
Weeedley
To: BGHater
It’s all just a bunch of Babel to me.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:05:34 AM PDT
by
Callahan
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To: BGHater
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:11:37 AM PDT
by
No.6
(www.fourthfightergroup.com)
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To: BGHater
Modern English: Queen
Modern German: Königin
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:12:50 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: BGHater
Let’s see. We started as one woman, and one man.
Nope, we never all spoke alike. Ever.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:13:27 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
( Hunter 2008)
To: BGHater
"almost overnight, everything changes very rapidly,"Does it bother anyone else that the history types insist on using the present tense when the past tense would be correct?
My high school historty professor pointed this out to us about 50 years ago.
I think the quoted sentence doesn't make any sense.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:16:54 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: Vaquero
I read an essay that opined that one of the reasons for China’s stagnation versus Western Civilization was that the Chinese language with its pictograms rather than phonetics required much to master and dominated the resources of the intelligentsia. Other causes were isolationism and Confuciusism.
To: BGHater
The theory of evolution doesn’t work any better for human languages than it does for animals. Amongst other things, there’s no reasonable way to explain the non-relation between IE and Semitic languages with “nostratic” type theories. the two groups of people are not racially different in any meaningful way and could not have split up more than a few thousand years back; the languages should be strongly related.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:20:20 AM PDT
by
jeddavis
To: BGHater
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:25:21 AM PDT
by
PBRSTREETGANG
(Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
To: goldstategop
Modern German: Königin The problem with that is that it uses the common German feminizing ending -in. The root word is König for king.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:35:24 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: Callahan
Its all just a bunch of Babel to me.
Exactly. I'm surprised no one else pointed this out.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:35:27 AM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Texas is no place for pansy-ass liberals. Ya'll move back to California er Mexico er somethin')
To: BGHater
I wonder of the term “c*nt” has its roots in “kunv”?
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:40:16 AM PDT
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: Tokra
Bantu - kentu
Also look at Eskimo-Aleut - *aGina.
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posted on
07/23/2007 7:48:04 AM PDT
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: BGHater
The group of Amerindian languages called Algonquin all have something like ‘e-quae’ or ‘es-quae’ or ‘s-quae’ for ‘women’ -— i.e. ‘squaw.
But 16,000 years ago is far too late for a root language, it seems more logical that it would have been more like years ago.
To: Tokra
The answer is yes, according to the
OED.
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/23/2007 8:00:30 AM PDT
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ml/nj
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posted on
07/23/2007 8:21:48 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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