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Which language for time-travel?
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Woodpecker
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01 April 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

Levi wrote:

I've actually thought about this scenario, and the answer is, without a
doubt, Proto-Indo-European.

You do realize that's a reconstructed, hypothetical language, right? (Maybe I just didn't
get the joke?)

It was real at some point...
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Message 42 of 44

02 April 2010 at 5:35am | IP Logged

Woodpecker wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

Levi wrote:

I've actually thought about this scenario, and the answer is, without a
doubt, Proto-Indo-European.

You do realize that's a reconstructed, hypothetical language, right? (Maybe I just didn't
get the joke?)

It was real at some point...

Theoretically.
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Arekkusu
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Message 43 of 44

02 April 2010 at 4:31pm | IP Logged

Proto-languages are reconstructed and we have no indication that they ever existed as
such. They serve to link child languages.
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Woodpecker
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Message 44 of 44

07 April 2010 at 9:42am | IP Logged

Arekkusu wrote:

Proto-languages are reconstructed and we have no indication that they ever existed as such. They serve to link child languages.

We do know that they did exist, however, just not necessarily as we've reconstructed them. The fact that all Indo-European languages are related indicates that at some point there was only one Indo-European language, from which the rest evolved. This language was Proto-Indo-European. Whether it resembles what we have reconstructed of it is something we will almost certainly never know. I assumed the poster meant the language he would want to speak for time travel was the real PIE, not the reconstructed form.

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