Unfortunately, Servien, the current consensus among linguists is that a protolanguage from more than 5000 years ago is difficult to reconstruct, and from over 10000 years is entirely impossible.
Thus, at best, we'd be able to have Proto-Indo-Finnic (?... that's provided that, as many have hypothesised and even "proven", Finno-Ugric is demonstrably the closest relative of Indo-European), but certainly not Pangaean.
Mark
On 07/07/05, Servien Ilaino servien@gmail.com wrote:
Now you're just talking mierda! Why would anyone wan't to use a language that's dead! :s of course Old LS would be kind of cool, but no one would use it. (must admit I understand this text better than I'd probably understand it in New GLS haha) but if you are going to talk bout stuff like this then why just not delete all Wikipedia's and start a complete new one in the language of Pagaea! :p
Servien
2005/7/7, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com:
Oops. Make that "Ihm wurde auf einem Bären von der Regierung gebundet" and "Ihm wurde eine Lüge von der Regierung erzählt".
Mark
On 06/07/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Wouter, I disagree. Old Saxon is, in my belief, mutually comprehensible with all other early West Germanic languages. We should thus use Common West Germanic. Though not attested, with a little effort we should be able to write in it. In fact, even writing in our native languages, we should be able to easily bridge the dialect barrier between Frisian and English and Scots and Swedish with just some orthographic conversion and a little extra effort. Obviously, the numerous Norman loanwords in English may be difficult, so I propose instead to use NoNorman when writing English, ie "firststuff" instead of "element", "birdlore" instead of "ornithology", "atomic" with "uncleftish", "beholding" rather than "theory", "manlore" (or the more PC "personlore" or "humanlore") rather than "anthropology", "animallore" rather than "zoölogy". We should also avoid indirect and idiomatic speech -- "passed away" should be instead "died", "Er wurde zu einem Bären von der Regierung aufgebunden." should be instead "Er wurde zu von der Regierung _gelogen_."
Of course, all system messages and all pages in the Wikipedia namespace would have to be written in Common West Germanic.
Mark
On 06/07/05, Wouter Steenbeek musiqolog@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear fellow list subscribers,
After a few very nasty e-mails, overseeing the battle field, I cannot conclude but that no-one will change his view by someone else's arguments. Therefor we should not bother to meet inbetween, but rather on neutral ground: let us return to where it all begun. We can eliminate both most spelling and most dialectical differences by... returning to Old Saxon. This strong sonorous language will unite the fierce but noble people of the Saxons which have been suppressed by Francs for far too long.
Latad uns farenigan undar thia sprakô, thia lang lidan ena was. Îs, Sachson, siad fardelad thur Frankon ewan lang, enda thur hart farenigadat duvoliskit werk wîs nu siad fardelid tot op tha bena. Ni langar sallad sî uns undardrukan: Vî, dat adelt folk, gad wêrum nah unsaron brunnon en herstellad allat hwat so lang fargetan, farnederad enda undardrukad is. Lang livad Sachson, lang liva Sachsa sprako. Enda nu, makad ena nija Wikipedia for unsara gedachta utwerkon konnon!
Iar bestar friond Wouter.
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