Archives of Babel: forward

[Ronald Kephart]

At 8:50 AM -0500 2/20/03, Harold F. Schiffman wrote:

>From: Maartje Schreuder <M.J.Schreuder at let.rug.nl>
>Discovery Channel: Archives of Babel
>
>[...] OnInternational Mother Language Day, Discovery Channel will
>also air Archives of Babel, a program that attempts to reconstruct
>the world's first language, as spoken by every human being at a
>given moment in history. Many of today's languages have roots
>originating from that single language.


Sounds like some good stuff, but I do have a quibble. Wouldn't *all*
of today's languages have to be descended from a language spoken in
in the distant past by "every human being"?

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Ronald Kephart
English & Foreign Languages
University of North Florida
http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart