| User | Comment |
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| confetti | | posted 6-Feb-2002 11:48am |
I'm working on developing several of my own right now for "Azure". No time right about now... |
romkey  | | posted 6-Feb-2002 11:52am |
I know someone who already can... where is she?  |
| Oscar | | posted 6-Feb-2002 12:37pm |
No. I'd rather learn to read and speak Italian. |
| icurok | | posted 6-Feb-2002 12:51pm |
Not sure. It would depend what the advantage of this was, or if there was anything left to read. |
heyzeus1  |
i dont have the motivation anymore.
i have friends that speak sumerian. |
| justjulie |
oh yes!
sanskrit
latin
swahili
not sure if the last 2 are considered dead though |
| Biggles |
I always wanted to learn Latin..... |
| jcorsetti |
Westron. |
| Kristal_Rose |
If I had the time I'd be learning Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Latin. As is, all I have time for is the hebrew alphabet, though on a metaphysical level, so it's still useful daily. (i suppose you could call hebrew a resurrected language) |
| Jemmy |
It depends on how much work I would have to do to learn it. |
| Frostbrand |
Sanskrit would be cool. |
Enheduanna  |
Already can. Several of them. |
| romkey |
my dead language heroine! |
| Enheduanna | | (reply to heyzeus1) posted 6-Feb-2002 6:12pm |
No they don't. They attempt to string together words of Sumerian into meaningful sentences. The thing about dead languages is that they're aren't spoken anymore. Which means that they have a pretty limited vocabulary, so you can't really carry on a modern conversation. It also means that no-one knows exactly how they were pronounced, so you can't speak them correctly. You can recite lines from Sumerian texts, but that's about it. |
| Enheduanna | | (reply to romkey) posted 6-Feb-2002 6:16pm |
I'm Enheduanna, the Dead Language Slayer! |
| autumnlight |
I would love to learn how to read hieroglyphics. My friend's mum can, I'll get her to teach me one of these days. |
dab  |
I'm sure I could and since I haven't, I guess not. |
| Zang | | posted 6-Feb-2002 11:04pm |
I know a little Sanskrit and a little Latin. |
| Dino |
I don't have the time. Plus the point of learning languages is to get connected. I don't see the point unless you were a monk and wanted to learn some ancient script for spiritual reasons (connected to the spirit) but I'm not and so I won't. |
| kaleb777 |
I can but I won't. Latin would be very useful, but it's hard enough to maintain a living language if you can't hear it and speak it regularly. |
| Kristal_Rose |
People do realise that hebrew was basically a dead language until resurrected half a century ago?
Teaching gaelic in Irish schools is a fairly recent comeback too. |
| Kay |
I would learn living languages first if I had the time, but I have always been interested in Latin. |
| natsim | | posted 28-Feb-2002 10:42pm |
I know some New Testament Greek. I'm not sure if that's a dead language, strictly speaking... Just an ancient form of a current language.... hmmmmm.... |
| natsim |
Oh Dear Dead Language Slayer, is New Testament Greek a dead language, or just a mutated live one? |
| Enheduanna | | (reply to natsim) posted 1-Mar-2002 11:39am |
Hmmmm...well, Greek has continuously survived as a spoken (and written) language, so it never really died. (Unlike Hebrew, which after the Old Testament period died out and was resurrected, making biblical Hebrew a dead language.) I guess I'd say NT Greek is more like Old, or maybe even Middle, English. It's an old dialect, and while nobody speaks it anymore, it's more like it moved over, rather than actually dying. |
| Maxell |
I might like to learn how to speak Gallic although it is no longer used. |
| natsim |
Damn, that means I don't know any dead languages... what a loser..... |
