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| koffiegast Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 5460 days ago 29 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 26 of 44 21 December 2009 at 2:43am | IP Logged |
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lol I'll settle with Old Chinese, 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 27 of 44 21 December 2009 at 12:39pm | IP Logged |
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Past: Ogham Script.
Future: Binary Code. Plus ça change. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ponape Pentaglot Groupie Spain Joined 5962 days ago 42 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Greek, Basque, Swahili, Tagalog, Arabic (classical), Quechua, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi | Message 28 of 44 22 December 2009 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
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I'd love to hear how Iberian languages sounded. Those were the original languages of Spain before Latin and they were lost. All we have left is a forgotten script. Luckily, Basque remained, but it is very disputed that it had a relation with Iberian languages.
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 29 of 44 25 December 2009 at 8:28am | IP Logged |
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I'd like to learn Western Aramaic, or whichever dialect it was that Jesus spoke, so I can talk to him and get the real deal about real Christianity or Englightenment as described by Jesus instead of so many interpretations.
I also would like to learn Anglo-Saxon perhaps, because the Germanic languages are my favorite family. Other than that, I'm not sure. For the future I really have no idea. I've always linked languages to the past. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5447 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 30 of 44 30 December 2009 at 8:19am | IP Logged |
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I think it would be fun to turn this around. What language would you like to go back in time to learn? I'd probably learn one of the conlangs meant to reconstruct Gaulish and hope it gave me enough of a base to learn the real thing from the natives. I'm on a couple forums where people argue about what the different inscriptions say. Imagine being able to just ask!
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| Gamauyun Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5648 days ago 26 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Romanian, German | Message 31 of 44 30 December 2009 at 10:57am | IP Logged |
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I think an interesting question this thread raises is how ancient peoples would perceive our modern languages. Would, for example, native Latin speakers recognize Spanish or Italian as being related to their language? Would they look down on it because of its simplified grammar?
I would want to know what kind of languages were spoken by hunter-gatherers. More recently, I'd just like to learn the ancestors of the languages I'm studying now, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Slavic and their direct descendants. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 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 32 of 44 30 December 2009 at 12:10pm | IP Logged |
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If time travel were like the movies, you would overhear time travellers complain that there was no point in learning
Latin or Anglo-Saxon, because "everyone there knows English too". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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