Re: Archiving language information (was Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages))

--- Tim May <butsuri@...>
wrote:

>  |  This is not a place of honor.
>  |  No highly esteemed deed is commemorated
> here.
>  |  Nothing valued is here.
>  |  This place is a message and part of a
> system of messages.
>  |  Pay attention to it!
>  |  Sending this message was important to us.
>  |  We considered ourselves to be a powerful
> culture.
>  |  What is here is dangerous and repulsive to
> us.
>  |  This message is a warning about danger.
>  |  The danger is in a particular location. It
> increases towards a center.
>  |  The danger is still present, in your time,
> as it was in ours.
>  |  The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
>  |  The form of danger is an emanation of
> energy.
>  |  The danger is unleashed only if you
> substantially disturb this place
>  |  physically. This place is best shunned and
> left uninhabited.
Sounds like a perfect invitation for some future
archaeologist to go digging for Lost Treasure:
...I mean, those ancients really got up to some
strange things - and anyway, this was just their
simple culture's way of keeping out superstitious
"energy worshippers". But WE know better and are
fully prepared to undertake the dig this
season!...

Padraic.



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