Re: Time machine

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:43, 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 :)
Personally, I would love to go see Homo Neandertalensis at about the 30 000
yr Before Present mark, and find out how they communicated.  And how and if
this manner of communication was affected by adverse competition from Homo
Sapiens.

Wesley Parish

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> Jan
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