That's true — time is a big place, and a lot of things are lost in it. I for one am rather more pained over disappearing of physical objects — genomes, books, a

That's true — time is a big place, and a lot of things are lost in it. I for one am rather more pained over disappearing of physical objects — genomes, books, art. Plus, it is all the more exciting to think about what caused some languages to exist and thrive for so long, and the information about the past they retained.