>The colonists that would later be
>called Romulan deliberately chose to "artificially drift" their
>language, going back to an ancient form and evolving it in a different
>direction. For an Earth example, look at the differences — and a
>surprising number of similarities — in all the European languages
>that evolved from the Indo-European root that hasn't been spoken for
>several thousand years.

... or the State of Israel adopting Hebrew as its national language when it had been dead outside academic and rabbinical circles for 1700 years.

--G.
one wonders vaguely what the Vulcan-Romulan equivalent of the as-salamu 'alaykum-shalom aleichem split is
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