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The Mother of All Languages. Modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue
Wall Street Journal ^
| 04/15/2011
| Gautam Naik
Posted on 04/15/2011 2:30:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Cincinnatus
maybe julius caesar was pronounced hoolio kaizer?
ah-reev-ah-dair-chee and sigh-a-nar-a
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04/15/2011 5:11:09 PM PDT
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mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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Thanks martin_fierro, and great graphic btw.
Quentin Atkinson? Sorry, but I just can't get fired up about ideas promulgated by anyone named Quentin. About 50,000 years ago -- the exact timeline is debated... They began to create cave art and bone artifacts and developed far more sophisticated hunting tools. Many experts argue that this unusual spurt in creative activity was likely caused by a key innovation: complex language, which enabled abstract thought. The work done by Dr. Atkinson supports this notion. His research is based on phonemes, distinct units of sound such as vowels, consonants and tones, and an idea borrowed from population genetics known as "the founder effect." Quentin's work doesn't support these claims, its part and parcel of it, breaks no new ground, and is (like linguistic theory in general) grandiose and sweeping conclusions based on superficial observations, and bearing an uncanny resemblance to the initial assumptions. This OTOH is something I quite like: To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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posted on
04/15/2011 5:13:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Uncle Miltie
How can you do that? Neither African nor American is a race. Is a Caucasian who moves from Africa to America an African American?
To: wendy1946
I was at a language camp in Norway and we went on a hiking trip. We came across an old guy that had a shack way up in the hills. The teacher (knew many of the Norwegian dialects) and the norwegian kids could only understand maybe 25% of what the old guy said.
The dialects will change from mountain valley to mountain valley but are still fairly similar. But this guy must have lived in the “Land that Time Forgot”.
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posted on
04/15/2011 5:42:46 PM PDT
by
21twelve
( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
To: SeekAndFind
It's not bizarre! It's the divine language! The ancient language! Spoken throughout the universe before time was time!
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posted on
04/15/2011 5:47:23 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: SeekAndFind
The Mother of All Languages. Modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue
And Obama can lie in all of them.
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posted on
04/15/2011 5:50:22 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: Tucker39
It wouldn’t be Hebrew. That’s post-Babel. It would be the Adamic tongue, pre-Babel.
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posted on
04/15/2011 5:52:21 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Cincinnatus
Yep, that emasculated pronunciation killed Latin for me as well.
I cannot picture Elmer Fudd conquering anything.
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posted on
04/15/2011 5:57:31 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Fiji Hill
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posted on
04/15/2011 5:59:52 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(Death to tyrants)
To: Sacajaweau
"All of a sudden because they could talk about it...longer arrows came to be?? or sharper arrows came to be?? Nice display of ignorance, there...
Lithic technology is one of my specialties in archaeology. Try to teach someone how to make a Clovis point by only pointing and grunting.
Can't be done...
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posted on
04/15/2011 6:13:59 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
To: TXnMA
To: 21twelve
When Europeans first came to Australia, they found hundreds of aborigine languaes, no two of which apparently resembled eachother any more than English and Japanese resemble eachother. Three is no way to square that with any theory of language evolution.
To: pyx
I hate to break it to ya: et cetera
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posted on
04/15/2011 6:17:55 PM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: bitterohiogunclinger
Migration of the fittest and most ambitious...
54
posted on
04/15/2011 6:19:31 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
To: rightly_dividing
Evidence on this thread to the contrary, the Gospel does not discriminate against the intelligent...
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posted on
04/15/2011 6:23:24 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
To: 21twelve
Linguistic group of one: talked to himself a lot and got tired of repeating himself... ‘-)
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posted on
04/15/2011 6:29:15 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
To: Cincinnatus
"Sister, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE that Julius Caesar said 'WANEY-WEEDY-WEEKY!'" One of my names begins with "V". It is surprising how few linguistic groups can pronounce that sound...
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posted on
04/15/2011 6:33:27 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
To: Sacajaweau
Have you ever made a sophisticated stone tool?
I have. Fracture propagation vector analysis doesn't translate well into "Ugh!"... Try it; I have...
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posted on
04/15/2011 6:41:42 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(America's most Orwellian oxymoronic acronym: "DOJ"...)
To: TXnMA
My Norwegian grandmother would call you Winnie. It’s odd because her “V” would come out as “W”. But her “W” would come out as “V”. I never heard anyone correct her so I just figured that they gave up trying. So it must have been more than “just switch them around”.
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posted on
04/15/2011 6:44:15 PM PDT
by
21twelve
( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
To: qam1
What's the alternative? Occasionally groups of Humans way back in time just decided to create whole new languages out of the blue for no apparent reason Ebonics and the Hip Hop stuff comes to mind...
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posted on
04/15/2011 11:52:59 PM PDT
by
willyd
(your credibility deficit is screwing up my bs meter...)
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