Why rewrite songs which Elvis made famous in Sumerian? Why not? Well, to Dr. Jukka Ammondt, a classics professor in Finland, who had already issued a CD of Elvis songs in Latin, this seemed like the next logical step. Sumerian, the oldest recorded language, is beloved by linguistic cranks (or, les fous du langage) being related by them to Lithuanian or Chinese. As far as academic linguists know, Sumerian is an isolate. Here's an article on Sumerian beer brewing: did making beer precede breadmaking?
Posted by jim at April 1, 2003 06:04 AM