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This reminded me of the French movie "la guerre de feu" about the people who found fire in the cave period. The interesting part of the movie was not in French.
by ugur2nd 2y ago
This reminded me of the French movie "la guerre de feu" about the people who found fire in the cave period. The interesting part of the movie was not in French. It's not in English either. There are no words in the movie. You should watch it.
- ysofunny 2y agoi just saw this video yesterday: "The Magic Of 80s Fantasy Movies Before The Lord of the Rings | Top 10 Most Underrated Fantasy Movies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLarGiXN864 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLarGiXN864 the movie you speak of is the first on the list: Quest for Fire (1981)
- urubu 2y agoThe English title is 'Quest for Fire'. There are actually two distinct languages (a kind of Proto-Proto-Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Proto-Proto-Uralic) spoken in the movie, created by Anthony Burgess. He later wrote an essay (the title of which escapes me ATM) about the thinking behind it. Some background: https://www.anthonyburgess.org/quest-for-fire/about-quest-for-fire/ https://www.anthonyburgess.org/quest-for-fire/about-quest-fo...
- eespark 2y agoThis might possibly be the essay you refer to: https://archive.is/20240311220449/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/15/magazine/creating-a-language-for-primitive-man.html https://archive.is/20240311220449/https://www.nytimes.com/19...
- 082349872349872 2y ago> a kind of ancient taboo on certain words, like fire, that they are not spoken directly but instead connected with other, similar sources; it is like calling the toilet or jakes the bathroom I find it amusing that we can reconstruct that PIE speakers had a verb for "to get high", but we can't reconstruct their noun for "bear", because it was taboo: speaking of the bear was like speaking of the devil, and so all we know are all the different ways the different languages chose to talk about the bear without saying its name.