The Random thought thread

[onetrack]

I blame the French for everything, especially anything to do with their odd, mangled-pronunciations language - large amounts of which have found their way into modern English, to confuse all those from non-English-speaking countries, who want to learn English. The strange part to me, is how English has become the primary language of technology, science, engineering, and even aviation. 

 

Anthropologists are always seeking to discover the exact point where language was invented (as it's presumed that sign language and grunts, and other animal-like sounds were humans only communication method, prior to that point of "inventing language").

I personally think they're going to keep doing a lot of guessing, as there is practically zero evidence available to determine when language was first developed and used. I suspect it was developed over a very long period of time, with a lot of trial and error and confusion.

[facthunter]

Latin is/was rather clever.   Nev

[red750]

And the amazing thing is that all this, every book, song, poem etc., is made up from only 26 letters in the alphabet.

[pmccarthy]

Then is queer another name for a choirboy?

[onetrack]

No, that's the priests in charge of the choir. How did you expect those boys to reach those high notes, without being grabbed by the nuts?

[willedoo]

I was listening to a talkback segment on the ABC radio tonight and the publican from Eulo rang in. He was on his way back home from Roma and mentioned that when he bought the car in Roma, the dealers offered a free 1,000 kilometre checkup. That's about 60 k's short of the distance to drive it home from Roma to Eulo and turn around and drive straight back to Roma.

Edited 43 minutes ago by willedoo