Re: [tied] Re: Agriculture and IE

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From: niffabs <niffabs@...>
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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Agriculture and IE


> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> > >(Piotr) By the way, PIE did not _disappear_.
> >
> > *****GK: Really? Finish your argument. PIE didn't disappear.
> It..... (what?)******
> >
> > I just mean we still speak it. It has evolved and changed a bit,
> but hasn't gone extinct. Piotr

Of course PIE hasn't gone extinct. Although we now can more or less
identify the spoken languages in the world, there will continue to be new
dialects springing up in a different valley, first here and then there.
Language is very much alive, constantly changing with new words being
assimilated as a new technology comes on line. Yet, I somehow feel that
with the advent of the computer, language change will no longer be as common
place as it once was. Uniformity will set in and most sentences (vocabulary
too) will be canned.

Gerry