<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I listened to the rhythmic speech rapper JayZ uttered at a political campaign event, had very little idea what he was going on about. It wasn’t much like Karen Carpenter and John Denver.<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Or Billy Joel. There is some classical music I know that would sound just as good if the notes were somewhat different. The key to those pieces is the rhythm - that's what makes it interesting. (Prokofieff, if you are interested)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">If you don't have anything to say, say it with a smile and a rhythm.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">If there were a universal <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">language </span>(that is to say, planetary - universal is a bit presumptuous, isn't it?), it would not last long. Regional variations would occur, new words would be coined, accents making spelling difficult, and lots more. It's only constant communication that make American and British English similar. It does not take long. Read Canterbury Tales in the original lately?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">As for the Indians, with whom was it more important to communicate with, your fellow tribesmen, or the white guys who had all these neat things you wanted, like jobs. The young Indians saw where the future lay and thought their Indian language was old hat, and abandoned it, like tlingit. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:05 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-2288672845061330853WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><b>From:</b> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Sill<br></span><span class=""><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] it's the yoga! was: RE: The Doomsday Clock<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:23 PM, <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5"><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>>…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?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Right, that's why we had to abandon English when we got all of that new tech. :-) Obviously, we came up with new words.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-Dave <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oh is that what caused us to abandon English? I thought it was rap. A local teen hangout where I go for excellent authentic Mexican burritos once a week (takeout) plays rap. I assume it is in English or some dialect loosely based on English, but I can seldom understand a bit of it. I understand some individual words, but the concepts are not part of my word (I assume rap has concepts.) <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I listened to the rhythmic speech rapper JayZ uttered at a political campaign event, had very little idea what he was going on about. It wasn’t much like Karen Carpenter and John Denver.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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