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Thread #70252 Message #1203711
Posted By: Nerd
09-Jun-04 - 01:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Harry Potter Film (Prisoner of Azkaban)
Subject: RE: BS: New Harry Potter Film (Prisoner of Azkaban)
Amos, thanks for confirming and expanding on my post...
If Hittite HAD been the original proto-language, by the way, then WESTERN forms would be expected to be older than eastern, and India would be an even worse place to look for the earliest evidence. But, as Amos pointed out, that view has been rejected for the msot part, and most linguists accept that the proto-language seems to have left no written records of its own.
Sanskrit remains the oldest IE language with a very extensive literature, hence the primacy it is often accorded in discussions.
Back to the movie: any one notice the instruments played by the choir of students? Bodhrans and toads! I wonder what message THAT sends!