The evolution of the English language

[Blackleaf]

Why is it that so many Brits can't speak their own language in sounds that are comprehensive to normal people?

They're probably called "accents" and "dialects".

 

[Curious Cdn]

The last Ice Age ended thousands of years before Proto-Indo-European was spoken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language

We're still in the "last ice age" and the ice continues to recede.

 

[Blackleaf]

We're still in the "last ice age" and the ice continues to recede.

So the ice is receding even though we're still in an ice age?

 

[Danbones]

Around 11,700 years ago, 6000 years before Proto-Indo-European was spoken.

look up the word "ma"
in almost every language round the world

 

[Blackleaf]

 

[Danbones]

So the ice is receding even though we're still in an ice age?

(t)he has trouble with facts
they are so slippery

 

[Curious Cdn]

So the ice is receding even though we're still in an ice age?

When the ice finishes receding (before it advances again) the current ice cycle comes to an "official end". Just because it receded from Redding 12,000 years ago didn't mean that it ended at that point. It is till receding, just like it did from Britain but it is happening farther north, much farther south and farther up in elevation, still.

 

[darkbeaver]

Around 11,700 years ago, 6000 years before Proto-Indo-European was spoken.

What source do you base your estimate of the beginning of proto indo european language at approximatly 6000 +/- 50/60 years? And where do you believe the practice to have originated?

 

[Danbones]

mama
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mama

also
Geneticist Traces Mysterious Origins of Native Americans to Middle East, Ancient Greece
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/831...tive-americans-to-middle-east-ancient-greece/

my "phonecians"

also

[youtube]YW_qutaoYwY[/youtube]
Published on Sep 23, 2012
"White Caucasian red haired mummies were found in Florida's Windover Bog. The mummies dated to be over 7000 years old."

My celts

funny how political correctness gets in the way of the truth

 

[Blackleaf]

look up the word "ma"
in almost every language round the world

I'm not too sure about that. There are lots of languages.

When the ice finishes receding (before it advances again) the current ice cycle comes to an "official end". Just because it receded from Redding 12,000 years ago didn't mean that it ended at that point. It is till receding, just like it did from Britain but it is happening farther north, much farther south and farther up in elevation, still.

I don't believe the ice is receding. There's more now in the Actic sand Antarctic than there was a few years ago.

 

[Curious Cdn]

I'm not too sure about that. There are lots of languages.



I don't believe the ice is receding. There's more now in the Actic sand Antarctic than there was a few years ago.

Visit Canada. We can show you receding ice in both the mountains and on the Arctic archipelago.

 

[Murphy]

It's pointless to explain anything to him. He's dim. You'll have better luck talking to a dog. He doesn't grasp the meaning of articles or reports. He blindly trusts the BBC.

Seriously, you're trying to reason with the British version of selfsame.

 

[Blackleaf]

Visit Canada. We can show you receding ice in both the mountains and on the Arctic archipelago.

I bet you couldn't.

 

[Curious Cdn]

I bet you couldn't.

Try the Columbia Ice Fields for a start. That glacier is particularly accessible.

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/jasper/activ/explore-interets/glacier-athabasca.aspx

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Icefield

 

[Blackleaf]

Try the Columbia Ice Fields for a start. That glacier is particularly accessible.

Parks Canada - Jasper National Park - Columbia Icefield Area and the Athabasca Glacier

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Icefield

Don't worry. A few years from now and it'll be growing again. Glaciers retreat and grow and retreat and grow. Tis the way of things.

 

[Danbones]

It's pointless to explain anything to him. He's dim. You'll have better luck talking to a dog. He doesn't grasp the meaning of articles or reports. He blindly trusts the BBC.

Seriously, you're trying to reason with the British version of selfsame.

That's the Canadian version of selfsame arguing with the British version of selfsame


popcorn Murph?

German is a derivative of protoeuropean

 

[Murphy]

No. I enjoy watching BL get confused. Which Cdn argues with BL?

 

[Danbones]

er...all of us?

lol
the "canadian" I meant in my quote was CC
Heh hEh
(IMHO....)

 

[Murphy]

I see. I don't argue with BL. He's too dim. It would be unfair. He tries to keep up, but fails miserably.

 

[darkbeaver]

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