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To: forkinsocket
Listen to a McCain speach?
2 posted on
01/31/2008 10:16:59 AM PST by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: forkinsocket
How Do You Learn a Dead Language?Converse with dead people?
3 posted on
01/31/2008 10:17:13 AM PST by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: forkinsocket
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?
4 posted on
01/31/2008 10:18:45 AM PST by
edcoil
To: forkinsocket
I think they're glossing over the difference between "extinct" and "dead" making it sound like there's no real difference.
Obscure indian languages can be lost and perhaps leave no trace. If that were to happen, they would be extinct. But Latin, though a dead language, is not likely to be extinct while civilization remains on earth.
To: forkinsocket
I speak conservatively, which is rapidly headed for extinction. Is anyone listening? Recording? Documenting?
9 posted on
01/31/2008 10:25:10 AM PST by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: EarthBound
How Do You Learn a Dead Language?
Fake it.
I must have mild dyslexia. I first thought the poster’s name was “foreskinrocket”...
Long day.
10 posted on
01/31/2008 10:25:23 AM PST by
MacDorcha
(Do you feel that you can place full trust in your obsevations of the physical world?)
To: forkinsocket
The better question is WHY would anyone want to learn a dead language?
11 posted on
01/31/2008 10:27:01 AM PST by
Beagle8U
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To: forkinsocket
To: forkinsocket
14 posted on
01/31/2008 10:32:13 AM PST by
seemoAR
To: forkinsocket
Latin, for example, is considered extinct, or dead Latin is far from dead. Actually it is being kept up to date and is in constant use in itself as well as being semi-concealed in a large fraction of English, French, etc.
15 posted on
01/31/2008 10:34:28 AM PST by
RightWhale
(oil--the world currency)
To: forkinsocket
Linguists fear that 19 more will soon follow the same fate. Why do they fear it? After all what good is it if no one speaks it?
. How would you go about learning a language that nobody speaks?
Much more importantly WHY would you?
17 posted on
01/31/2008 10:37:32 AM PST by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: forkinsocket
This might happen to English in 100+ years.
25+ if we don’t secure our borders.
18 posted on
01/31/2008 10:37:33 AM PST by
wastedyears
(This is my BOOMSTICK)
To: forkinsocket
the only remaining native speaker of the Eyak language The problem is right there. It is a spoken language. Or was.
19 posted on
01/31/2008 10:38:22 AM PST by
RightWhale
(oil--the world currency)
To: forkinsocket
To: forkinsocket
Does speaking fluent drunkinese count as a language?
24 posted on
01/31/2008 10:57:54 AM PST by
Niteranger68
(Either order from the menu or go open your own restaurant.)
To: forkinsocket
A case of all Chiefs no Indians.
27 posted on
01/31/2008 11:07:36 AM PST by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
To: forkinsocket
Umm... Why, exactly, should we get worked up over a language "going extinct"?
Languages aren't some sort of noble end unto themselves, other than study for linguists.
Language is for communication. If you can adequately communicate your thoughts in a "living" language, what do others matter?
28 posted on
01/31/2008 11:10:24 AM PST by
TChris
("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
To: forkinsocket
To: forkinsocket
English will be a dead language in the USA if Juan McCain is elected president.
To: forkinsocket
It’d be interesting to know more about those native languages, their origins, and their relations (if any) to Asian languages. It’s a shame when a language like that dies out.
40 posted on
01/31/2008 3:13:02 PM PST by
puroresu
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