Well, I'm involved in other things, besides physics. In fact, mostly now in other things.
Sūpluok fizikai es asmu īsasaistejs ari cytur. Eisteneibā, itūšaļt vaira taišni cytuos lītuos.
One thing is distant relationships among human languages. And the professional, historical linguists in the U.S. and in Western Europe mostly try to stay away from any long-distance relationships, big groupings, groupings that go back a long time, longer than the familiar families. They don't like that. They think it's crank. I don't think it's crank. And there are some brilliant linguists, mostly Russians, who are working on that, at Santa Fe Institute and in Moscow, and I would love to see where that leads.
Vīna ir attuoluos attīceibys cylvāku volūdu vydā. Profesionali viesturis volūdnīki ASV i Vokoru Eiropā pa lelam rauga turētīs par gobolu nu vyskaidom attuolom attīceibom; lelim grupiejumim, cīši vacim grupiejumim, vacuokim kai zynomuos volūdu saimis. Jim tys napateik; Jī dūmoj, ka tei ir kaprize. Es nadūmoju, ka tai ir kaprize. Ir nazcik genialu volūdnīku, puorsvorā krīvu, kurī pi tuo struodoj Santafe Iņstitutā i Moskovā. Es cīši grybātu redzēt, iz kureini tys nūvess.
Does it really lead to a single ancestor some 20, 25,000 years ago? And what if we go back beyond that single ancestor, when there was presumably a competition among many languages? How far back does that go? How far back does modern language go? How many tens of thousands of years does it go back?
Voi tys eistyn nūvess pī vīna prīškguojieja pyrma kaidu 20—25 tyukstūšu godu? I ka nu mes ītu vēļ tuoļuok pyrma ituo kūpeiguo prīškguojieja, kod, drūsai viņ, beja daudzu volūdu sovstarpeiga konkureņce? Cik tuoli paguotnē tys īt? Cik tuoli paguotnē īt myuslaiku volūda? Cik daudzus dasmytus tyukstūšys godu tuoļā paguotnē tei īt?
Chris Anderson: Do you have a hunch or a hope for what the answer to that is?
Kriss Aņdersons: Jums ir nūjauta voi nūceja par tū, kaids ir atsacejums?
Murray Gell-Mann: Well, I would guess that modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language. So, I would guess that the actual origin goes back at least that far and maybe further.
Marijs Gells-Manns: Es pasaceitu miniejumu, kai myuslaiku volūdom juobyut vacuokom kai olu zeimiejumi, olu graviejumi i olu skuļpturom, i daņču sūlim meikstajā muolā Vokoru Eiropys oluos Oriņakys periodā pyrma kaidu 35 000 godu voi seņuok. Es naspātu nūticēt, ka jī spieja tū vysu dareit, najādzūt myuslaiku volūdu. Deļtuo es pīļaunu, kai patīsuo izceļsme ir vacuoka, mozuokais tikpoš vaca, kas zyn i vacuoka.
But that doesn't mean that all, or many, or most of today's attested languages couldn't descend perhaps from one that's much younger than that, like say 20,000 years, or something of that kind. It's what we call a bottleneck.
Nu tys nanūzeimoj, ka vysys, daudzys voi koč vairums nu myuslaiku zynuomuos volūdys navarieja izaceļt, pīvadumam, nū vīnys, kurei ir daudz jaunuoka, saceisim, 20 000 godu vaca voi liedzeigai. Tū mes saucam par šaurū vītu.
CA: Well, Philip Anderson may have been right. You may just know more about everything than anyone. So, it's been an honor. Thank you Murray Gell-Mann. (Applause)
K.A.: Filipam Aņdersonam varieja byut taisneiba. Var byut, jius par tū zynat vaira kai kurs cyts. Deļtuo tys ir gūds. Paļdis jums, Marij Gell-Mann. (Publika plaukšynoj)