On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:36:46AM -0800, Michael Motyka wrote:
Very true. Communicating with a 14th century Englishman would be difficult. I
took a similar major's course with Robert Kaske in the 80's without the benefit of
the side-by-side. It was as close to learning a new language as I
On Ken's
All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are
the same age.
At first this parsed because I was thinking in the sense of
all organisms have ancestries going back the same amount of
time. (And humans aren't the 'goal' of evolution.) Not sure
if non-bioheads
At 04:25 PM 01/14/2003 +, Ken Brown wrote:
All contemporary natural languages, like all biological species, are
the same age.
This statement is so silly it leaves me speechless... []
Nonsense. Icelandic is little changed from the Old Norse of 1000 A.D.
Icelanders can easily read the
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 07:42 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:25 PM -0500 on 1/9/03, Trei, Peter wrote:
Basque is unique, as you say
I remember someone saying somewhere, probably on PBS, that Basque is
*very*
old, paleolithic, and lots of popular mythology has
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:25 PM -0500 on 1/9/03, Trei, Peter wrote:
Basque is unique, as you say
I remember someone saying somewhere, probably on PBS, that Basque is *very*
old, paleolithic, and lots of popular mythology has cropped up that it's
the closest living relative to some
Major Variola wrote...
Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the
Maybe your highschool has firewalled off anything that will lead
you to Hoffman, Ott, Huxley, etc.
Yeah, read all a lot of that shit 25 years ago. Seems easier to ask in an
email while making some
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
I'd also point out the need to be deliberately oblique. I'm not sure we
aren't actually headed towards a time where any of us can be carted away for
expressing how we really think. I also don't kid myself about whether
someone could be listening. And
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
Soma? Despite the fact that I've read large chunks of the Rig Vedas, I
don't remember anything called Soma (unless this is a Brave New World
Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the
Mahabaratabut I don't imagine this is what
At 03:32 PM 1/9/03 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
Soma? Despite the fact that I've read large chunks of the Rig Vedas,
I
don't remember anything called Soma (unless this is a Brave New World
Reference). Of course, the Bhagavad Gita is a subsection of the
Mahabaratabut I don't imagine this is what
Tyler Durden[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Most of the people from the British Isles over to Northern India speak a
variant of the original Indo-European language, with Sanskrit and
Lithuanian
likely being the closest languages surviving. Some interesting exceptions
(I
believe) are
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