"The Mother Tongue?" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 07 May 2013 5:21 p.m. PST |
The ancestors of people from across Europe and Asia may have spoken a common language about 15,000 years ago, new research suggests… Read more: link |
 John the OFM  | 07 May 2013 5:36 p.m. PST |
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| (Stolen Name) | 07 May 2013 6:27 p.m. PST |
Nah according to Phil Barker irregular verbas move and fight as good as regular ones so no need |
| John the OFM | 07 May 2013 6:46 p.m. PST |
That's a relief.
So, how did we get away from that? |
| optional field | 07 May 2013 7:19 p.m. PST |
I'm not certain if the article is on Proto-Indo-European, or something earlier. Can anyone clarify? |
| John the OFM | 07 May 2013 8:25 p.m. PST |
From THIS article,
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"fart" has a long and honoured history.
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| Patrick R | 08 May 2013 2:50 a.m. PST |
Imagine if you have never seen the Wright Flyer and based on today's planes, somebody asks you to reconstruct it. That's how these reconstructions work, it's a model of the language in that it's somewhat artificial, idealized model of the proto-language. A bit like trying to pass off Dutch as being English. At least that's what they told me at the comparative languages course in Teaching School. |
| optional field | 08 May 2013 6:16 a.m. PST |
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This article (with appropriate audio) seems a bit more clear. Apparently some cognates that predate Proto-Indo-European have been found… Nifty. |
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