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How Do You Learn a Dead Language?
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| Jan. 28, 2008
| Christine Cyr
Posted on 01/31/2008 10:15:54 AM PST by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket
Listen to a McCain speach?
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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?
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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?
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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: edcoil
“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.
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posted on
01/31/2008 10:20:52 AM PST
by
tired1
(responsibility without authority is slavery!)
To: Izzy Dunne
"Converse with dead people?"
"You have to see them first".
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posted on
01/31/2008 10:22:20 AM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: edcoil
>>But why would you want to learn a language no one else knows?
So nobody else can listen in when you talk to yourself. :)
To: forkinsocket
I speak conservatively, which is rapidly headed for extinction. Is anyone listening? Recording? Documenting?
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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.
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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?
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posted on
01/31/2008 10:27:01 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: forkinsocket
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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.
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posted on
01/31/2008 10:34:28 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(oil--the world currency)
To: ClearCase_guy
Hehe.
I remember posting both those threads... but the Mix-A-Lot one was more fun!
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?
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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.
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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.
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posted on
01/31/2008 10:38:22 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(oil--the world currency)
To: edcoil
Kind of reminds of the classic question in Strategic Business Management classes:
“Who bought the first telephone offered for sale? And Why?”
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posted on
01/31/2008 10:41:47 AM PST
by
L,TOWM
(Liberals, The Other White Meat)
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