Re: Age of langs (was Tempus)

In a message dated 3/11/2001 2:27:45 AM Pacific Standard Time,
and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:


> In PRINCIPLE there may be only one lang
> (everything's only different dialects of Proto-World) or billions of langs
> (at the very least one per human), but that's not very helpful so we'll
>
       That was sort of my point.  But anyway, I also think there's some
confusion about "older".  I don't mean existed for a longer period of time,
but existed synchronically at an earlier period of time.  So, take modern
English as it exists in America today and you won't find it in the early days
of the Roman Empire.  Thus, the earliest form of Latin, taken all at once, is
older than this slice of Modern English just because it existed earlier.

-David

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