"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
If all of them were speaking words from largely dead languages, the accents of the speakers were suspect. OTOH, there are signifiers. Has anyone investigated whether these speakers were actually speaking the languages as they were actually spoken?
Very interesting. I bet some of them were not as halting as portayed.
ReplyDeleteIf all of them were speaking words from largely dead languages, the accents of the speakers were suspect. OTOH, there are signifiers. Has anyone investigated whether these speakers were actually speaking the languages as they were actually spoken?
ReplyDeleteWe can't really know for certain how most of these languages sounded because there are probably no speakers left.
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