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Re: Ancient conlang

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Thursday, January 15, 2004, 4:12
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

> > Provided it had the necessary modern > > vocabulary: there's no word for > > "email" or "hominid" or "chimp" in Hittite. > > Circumlocutions. For "hominid", use "manlike"; > for "chimp" use "monkey". > > Email could be "lightning courrier" or similar.
Yes, but 'lightning courier' doesn't _mean_ 'email'. You might just as well borrow email into Hittite, but either way, an ancient Hittite (or even relatively modern people like my great-grandparents) wouldn't know what it was. You can't talk about email till it's been thought of. -- Tristan

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