* BP Jonsson (bpj@netg.se) [990819 22:55]:
> At 12:04 -0700 18.8.1999, Barry Garcia wrote:
> >bpj@netg.se writes:
> >>In the real future English will of course have disappeared, North
> >>Americans speaking daughter languages of Spanish,
> >
> >Hmm, i can see maybe areas with high numbers of Spanish speakers speaking
> >in a kind of "Spanglish".
/snip/
>
> But one *meg* of years into the future...
Uhm... what 'meg' are you talking about here... 10^6 (1 000 000)
or 2^20 (1 048 576)? I can assure you norse wasn't spoken one
million years ago... homo sapiens sapiens wasn't even around yet,
as far as I know.
tal.