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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: Fear of a LOJBAN planet
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Organization: That would be telling.
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: > Henry Robertson (robohen@cs.cmu.edu) writes:
: >> What will our brown descendants speak in AD 2995?
: >             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

: aa318@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (John Coughlin) writes:
: > What the hell does _that_ mean ?

s25@ctdvx5.priv.ornl.gov says:
: That by 2995 the various "races" of humanity will have intermingled
: to the point where everyone is a uniform shade of brown?

That's how I read it, given that the thread seems to have started
in soc.couples.intercultural - except that posters to that group have a
_stronger_ reason to expect _their_ descendants to be "medium brown".

: I don't
: know; I'm guessing. Although I've heard the prediction before (Time
: did a cover story on it, which included a computer-genrated photo
: of a woman who was supposed to be an admixture of various ethnic
: types)

(and I thought her quite the looker!)

: I tend to doubt it will happen. It reminds me of the
: prediction that widespread reception of radio and television would
: eliminate regional variations in language.
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