From: Gerry
Message: 22954
Date: 2003-06-10
> Someone wrote:-a
> > I'm simply trying to pull out of the atmosphere some reasons why
> > language becomes (or remains) an isolate.-- cute.
>
> I have heard of a way that an isolate could arise quickly. In some
> climates, it may have happened, very rarely, that some children old
> enough to walk but not old enough to talk, get isolated and survive
> to adulthood on natural food from the jungle, and then start
> breeding. They invent a language among themselves without outside
> contact.
> Another possibility, I suppose, is that a deaf-and-dumb couple are-- ditto cute.
> ejected from the tribe and raise a large family in isolation, and
> then as ditto.
> Someone wrote:-language
> > Guess another answer could be "aliens from outer space".
>
> (1) Infiltrate Area 51 and get from there a textbook of the
> of the Greys. Then compare it with Burushaski etc????? :-) :-) :-)??? huh?
> (2) Among "alien" languages that have been invented by human sci-figeneral
> authors, I know of only one word from them that has got into
> usage in a real natural language: "grok", used sometimes as EnglishNah. Me no grok.
> slang for "understand", started in a fictional Martian language.