Re: Saxons? What Saxons?
- From: spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan L Cunningham)
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:27:46 +0100
Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <48729cac$0$60073$804603d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dan Goodman <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Somehow I'd never realized that he was trying to reconstruct
Proto-World; in that connection I always think first of
Ruhlen, who is unquestionably a crackpot with credentials,
and of the Russian N. Ya. Marr, who held that all languages
are descended from a proto-language consisting of the four
syllables ('diffused exclamations') <sal>, <ber>, <yon>, and
<rosh>.
Time travel story idea: All languages are descended from Esperanto.
Or from any other language you please,
Loglan pleases me. Humans are uplifted by robots (FTL travel is
impossible, so robots are sent instead) who teach the newly created
sapients a purely logical language.
Bolshy humans subvert the pure logic into languages like (ugh!) English
(or proto-Sanskrit or whatever), and robots all have a nervous breakdown
trying to understand what they are saying. Much hilarity ensues.
Of course, if the robots were not all sitting on their hands mumbling
"dweeble, dweeble, tweet" by now they would have helped us achieve
paradise on earth. But you can't have everything.
Jonathan
[Plots R Us. For characterisation, please apply next door.]
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Jonathan L Cunningham
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