Dead Languages; Literally, "Apu-Punchau"?

CRCulver · 09 Apr 1999, 22:07 · from urth-v0025.mbox · original

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From: CRCulver at aol.com
Subject: Re: (urth) Dead Languages; Literally, "Apu-Punchau"?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:07:05 EDT
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In a message dated 4/1/99 8:23:30 PM EST, MAB at lindau.net writes:

<< For what it's worth, Chatelaine Thea thought English, a dead language
 remembered by a few scholars in her time, was amusingly ambiguous. >>

Yes, she remarked that she didn't know how a language where "present" had t=
wo=20
meanings ("now" and "gift") could endure such confusion.

<<I'm wondering if the use of Quechua is a substitution of the same sort
for some future autochthonous language, or whether Sev actually traveled
back in time to live among the pre-imperial Inca, c. 1200 AD?>>

The events at the end of _Urth_ mystify me even after I have finished my=20
third reading of the BotNS. However, I thought it was pretty clear that Sev=20
did go to 1200 AD South America, he has spoken on the time being that of th=
e=20
dawn of man, so it was certainly pre-20th century. Regarding his eclipse,=20
wasn't there an eclipse during the 13th century that was total over much of=20
the world? It rings a bell.

- Christopher R. Culver <crculver at aol.com>

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