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A handy little guide to small talk in the Stone Age
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| February 26, 2009
| Mark Henderson
Posted on 03/04/2009 4:07:29 PM PST by billorites
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To: billorites
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03/04/2009 4:08:58 PM PST
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Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: billorites
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03/04/2009 4:11:22 PM PST
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Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
7 words you cant say on radio or TV.....?
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03/04/2009 4:12:27 PM PST
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njslim
To: billorites
Reminds me of a line from Dr. Who years ago ... he was trying to teach a primitive tribe how to play Scrabble. “The only word they know is ‘uh’ and they don't even know how to spell it.”
To: billorites
But what about words like furshlugginer, poiuyt, potrzebie, veeblefeltzer and axolotol?
Bill Gaines, call your office. . .
To: LiberConservative
Wasn’t that Arthur Dent in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy?
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03/04/2009 4:19:36 PM PST
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OCC
To: LiberConservative
I think that was Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.....
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03/04/2009 4:20:52 PM PST
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Cyber Liberty
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To: billorites
So that pretty much rules out any discussion of Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems.
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03/04/2009 4:23:42 PM PST
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swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: billorites
At the rate we’re going we oughta be back in the Stone Age any day now, so it’s good to know the lingo.
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03/04/2009 4:26:09 PM PST
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Argus
(We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
To: billorites
I had read a similar article before.
These words listed here will only work with the people of the Indo-European (Europe, Persia, India) family / ancestry, and not those relating to Semitic/ Afro-Asian/ Sino-Tibetan, etc., families.
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03/04/2009 4:34:36 PM PST
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MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: Cyber Liberty; OCC
"I think that was Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy....."
:o It was many years ago. Thanks for the correction.
To: njslim
7 words you cant say on radio or TV.....?
All instantly recognizable to the most primitive barbarian, even if he asks
'What's radio?' 'What's TV?'
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03/04/2009 4:42:52 PM PST
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UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
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To: LiberConservative
You can always count on FReepers to embarrass you. Trust me on this.
:^)
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03/04/2009 4:46:00 PM PST
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Cyber Liberty
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To: billorites
Native African to Richard Pryor: "What language you speak?"
"English."
"Everybody speak English. What language you speak at home?"
"Uh, Jive?"
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03/04/2009 4:47:51 PM PST
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UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
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To: MyTwoCopperCoins; billorites
Yup, same story the other day, but with less speculation on what might happen, or did happen,
Still, if you knew North American Indian sign language, or the Shang Dynasty hieroglyphics, you might do much better than with the approach proposed here.
For example, you are sitting there haggling over a buffalo robe. You raise your right arm straight up over your head, hand open, and cross your chest with your left arm.
So, what does that mean? Well, in the sign language, or Shang characters, or ancient Sumerian, or Aztec pictoglyphs, or Mongolian Deer Stones, or Finish/Russian pictoglyphs that's going to mean "ME", the most important word in any language on Earth.
You can start from there!
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03/04/2009 5:01:33 PM PST
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muawiyah
To: billorites
“If a time traveller wanted to go back in time to a specific date, we could probably draw up a little phrasebook of the modern words that are likely to have sounded similar back then,” he told The Times. “You wouldn’t be able to discuss anything very complicated, but it might be enough to get you out of a tight spot.”When I travel back in time, I'm bringing one of these. It'll get me out of a tight spot if the phrasebook doesn't work.
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03/04/2009 5:07:16 PM PST
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Drew68
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03/04/2009 7:05:34 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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03/04/2009 7:06:06 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: billorites
Anyone who watched Ringo Star’s “Cave Man” already has the stone age lexicon!
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03/04/2009 7:12:08 PM PST
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Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
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