Re: Neanderthal and PIE
| From: | Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 13, 2008, 0:16 |
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> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:54:49 -0400> From: Jim Henry> > To make that halfway
> plausible, you would have to posit that the aliens> terraformed themselves to
> be able to live in Earth gravity, atmosphere,> etc., digest nutrients found
> in Earth plants and animals, etc; borrowing> a heap of DNA from the smartest
> animals they could find, improving> on it and making sure the resulting
> brains had enough room for their> minds.>
On a related note, all of my conlang projects have proceeded from a sort of
background assumption that the language is spoken by a people on one of Ursula
LeGuin's Hainish planets. For those unfamiliar, her Hainish universe has Earth,
and a number of other planets in the local area of the galaxy, colonized by a
founding race called the Hainish. LeGuin even coined the word "Ekumen", which
seems to mean something like "diaspora": the human (Hainish) diaspora around
the galaxy.
At least that was the founding "justification" behind my ongoing "Ricadh" project.
:Chris
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