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| Gareth Groupie United States Joined 5458 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cherokee, French | Message 1 of 44 17 December 2009 at 6:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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Suppose You've invented a time-machine.Which language would you learn?I would learn Latin & plains amerind sign language for the past. But for the future I don't really know.
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| Risch Groupie United States Joined 5589 days ago 49 posts - 71 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 44 17 December 2009 at 6:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Attic and Koine Greek. Old Persian. Vulgar Latin. Phoenecian/Punic. 15-16th century Tuscan. And many, many others. For the future, I would learn to speak English the way 15 year old girls text. Good question. Edited by Risch on 17 December 2009 at 6:08am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gareth Groupie United States Joined 5458 days ago 51 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cherokee, French | Message 3 of 44 17 December 2009 at 6:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Dang! I completely forgot about Phoenecian/Punic and old Persian.LAMO @ teh txting. Edited by Gareth on 17 December 2009 at 6:13am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 4 of 44 17 December 2009 at 6:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've actually thought about this scenario, and the answer is, without a doubt, Proto-Indo-European.
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 5 of 44 17 December 2009 at 10:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Would you want to go that far back? That's Stone Age culture, pre-historic. I'm thinking early medieval Europe. Learn Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Old French, Latin, Byzantine Greek. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rowena Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6579 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 6 of 44 17 December 2009 at 10:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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The TARDIS will translate for me anyway. (;
Seriously though..Latin. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| pookiebear79 Groupie United States Joined 6030 days ago 76 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian | Message 7 of 44 17 December 2009 at 1:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
Great minds think alike.It also covers the scenario of "future" time travel in case one finds oneself ending up somewhere other than earth. I don't have a great interest in ancient or "dead" languages, and it would all depend on when and where I would hypothetically be going, so I don't think I can think of one specifically. Since this is a 'what if' game anyway, I prefer to think that in case of absence of a blue police box containing a hot timelord, technology would provide a pill or chip for whatever language was needed. ("Thank you for choosing Time Travel Tours. We have you down for a vegetarian meal and the ancient Greece compatibility upgrade.") :P 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 8 of 44 17 December 2009 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Heck, I might even want to go further back than that. A time machine would seem to be the only way to know for sure how language originated in the first place. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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