Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:18:14 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: cjc26@cornell.edu, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sanskrit numbers (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) Message-ID: <20020522151814.A16774@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20020522215236.GA1640@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:52:36PM %2B0200 References: <20020522192335.P47352@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.SOL.3.91.1020522160649.23407A-100000@travelers.mail.cornell.edu> <20020522215236.GA1640@lpt.ens.fr>
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--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:52:36PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I'm still skeptical about how far you can really go with such > techniques. Sounds and pronunciations change over time, and > recordings didn't exist until a hundred years ago (in which time span > there have already been significant changes in pronunciation), so > extrapolating back 10,000 years seems far-fetched. We can do better then 100 years though. The Romans wrote a fair number of things phoneticly so we've actually got a record of approximatly how some languages sounded <1000 years ago. Records in phonetic Coptic (no idea how it's actually spelled) in Latin characters with a few gliphs for missing sounds have allowed linuguists to guess how ancient Egyptian sounded. Intrestingly, when The Mummy and The Mummy Returns were produced, they hired linguists to come up with the dialog so it's as close to "real" as anyone could get. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE87BklXY6L6fI4GtQRAq46AKDAEEmfihNL5RE38Yp7TGbxojRqRwCeIw/S E+VSexUrcgf4Fbbm2L+4vSw= =Gnnk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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