17. "RE: IPSF All-Points Notice"
In response to message #16
>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 -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.