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Re: Jabbering !re:pre-babel
remember from 'hitch hikers guide' the babel fish
The history of linguistics often refer to a common tongue before the
biblical fall of the tower of Babel. This was the language of Adam the first
man, hence religuously the primeval language (in judeo-chrisitian) beliefs.
This is the 'holy grail' for some language researchers especially in the
medieval ages. The Irish monks tried to reverse engineer this language and
jewish cabalists have worked on recreating it from Hebrew - which they
believe is the purest post-crash language.
More recently the existance of the pan-indoeuropean language has been cited
as evidence of a pre-babel language eg. similarilitys in words used for
'King' or 'Law' across the European and Indian continents.
though I doubt whether the language of Adam has been spoken by an ape since
the church doesn't recognise the heritage...but I did see a documentary, '
the Planet of the Apes' I think....
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From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
Kenneth Van Oost
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To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Jabbering !
----- Original Message -----
From: havelock
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 2:38 AM
Subject: RE: Jabbering !
is a primeval language different from a pre-Babel language?
<< I don' t know !!
What do you mean by a pre-Babel language !? I am not familar with the
term.
But,
If we " translate " the sounds which a chimp produces and we
put them into understandable " words " what do we get !?
uh-uh
oeh-oeh, or something like that
Notice, it is here the other way round then by humans_ first the vovel
than the consonant !
Is there info avaible about this !?
regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are)
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