Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> --- Christophe wrote:
>
>> Indeed :(( . If ever someone manages to invent a time-travelling machine,
>> there's a big chance that the first passenger will be a linguist ;))) .
>
>He or she will really have a hard time, then. Suppose that the machine will
>work only once, what language would you elect to visit, then?
>
>I might go for Tocharian, but Proto-Indo-European seems rather tempting,
too :)
>
Small problem: exactly _where_ would you have the Time Machine send you?
:-)) Better take along an *ekwos just in case you need to relocate......