Re: Stop it all ! It's a case of emergency !

Philippe Caquant wrote:

>I just saw a terrible television report (no joke).
>
>According to American scientists, about 70.000 years
>ago, there was a huge volcanic eruption in Sumatra.
>The consequence was a catastroph at the planet scale,
>among others for mankind: only some thousands people
>might haver survived it (this conclusion came from
>genetic studies).
>
>If this is true, those people were our direct
>ancestors, and probably they talked the same language,
>and this was our original language (die Ursprache !).
>At least this is probable, since the one who survived
>probably lived in the same place.
>
>But wait ! Yellowstone, in the USA, is also a
>super-volcano, similar, or worse, than the Sumatra
>one. Scientists said it erupts every 600.000 years...
>and the last time was 600.000 years ago.
>
>
>
If it's Yellowstone - The most likely place to survive would be around
the opposite side of the world.  Or surrounding it.  Thus, It'll be the
south pacific.  So, maybe Bahasa Indonesia, English, and Tok Pisin will
be the last language to survive...

Reply