Guest Post: Linguistic Confusion

Greetings, precious readers!  While I have been in mourning, some of you have been very funny, and two of you have been so funny that you have become my second guest bloggers--hurray!

So here is a transcribed conversation that has been making me giggle all morning, accompanied by illuminating footnotes for those of you who are not nerd enough to get the joke.  Enjoy!

A Guest Post by A Friend of the Blog

Her: I just think we should all go back to speaking Akkadian*. After all, it was the first language of commerce.

Me: I'm sorry what? Acadian** was the first language of commerce? When?

Her: You know, back in the BCs.

Me: Whaaaaat on earth are you on about? Nobody spoke Acadian two thousand years ago!

Her: Sure they did. And the best part was that by the time their language had become the language of trade, their own empire had faded. So the language lived on long after the people themselves were gone.

Me: You think there was an Acadian EMPIRE now? WHERE?

Her: You know, in the Levant.

Me: Ooooooooooooooohhhhhhh. Never mind.

*An ancient language spoken in Mesopotamia

**A variety of French spoken primarily in Canada