[ExI] it's the yoga! was: RE: The Doomsday Clock

[Dave Sill]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:23 PM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

>
>
> What happens to old languages when we need all the words and grammatical
> constructs to describe new technology?  Navajo doesn’t have words for cars,
> cell phones, computers, all the cryptic technology stuff we have now.  How
> do these original languages manage?
>

Right, that's why we had to abandon English when we got all of that new
tech. :-) Obviously, we came up with new words.

-Dave
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