Re: THEORY: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 20, 1999, 18:23 |
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On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Charles wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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> > I hope not! But it will be centuries, if not millenia before the world
> > is as interesting linguistically again as it was a century ago.
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> And there *was* a European (Mediterranean) interlingua,
> "the" Lingua Franca, but it died somewhen around 1850,
> or perhaps survives in all the other so-called pidgins.
>
Is there literature about that language? Sounds interesting... Of course,
it isnt't the only language that has died in the past century. Hundreds,
if not thousands of other languages have disappeared, often without a
trace, or leaving just a little word-list. And before we're in the next
century, dozens more will have disappeared...
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt