Re: THEORY: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 21:41 |
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > Yes, that would mean an essentially fresh start - I wonder if your
> > time-depth is enough for that, though.
>
> What do you mean? It's open-ended, after the Plagues, Earth was
> quarentined, attempts to recolonize it failed, as the Plagues still
> existed, and promptly infected the colony. Therefore, the descendants
> of these survivors would have unlimited time.
>
Well, to get a linguistic situation as interesting as the one in the 19th
century from a tabula rasa, I think you need as much time as we've had
up to that time - a hundred thousand years? The survivors have enough time
before them, but did they have enough behind?
> Yay! A couple more bucks! :-)
Is it that much? No wonder Amazon is still losing money...
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt