I changed the Subject name so Barbara Nitz would not need to tell us when to stop. :-)
Lindy has correctly stated the English language's derivation (etymology) of our words hound and deer. As John Gilmore said, Roger Suhr misunderstood Lindy's point. Another example of etymology is how Suhr's German word Rehbock morphed into our English word roebuck. As languages evolve, several aspects of any given word can change: the spelling, the pronunciation, consonantal voicing or unvoicing, vowel shifting, and even the meaning. Hound comes from Hund, deer comes from Tier, and innumerable other examples can be given of modern English words with German word origins. Linguists officially classify modern English as a North Germanic language. Most of our modern words have either Anglo-Saxon (thus older Germanic) or Norman French (thus older Latin) roots. English today is the language equivalent of SMF - it absorbs data from everywhere. We have a host of technical English words now with either Latin or Greek roots in them, as well as at least a smattering of words from hundreds of the six or seven thousand languages extant. Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 8:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Parsing Lindy didn't get things wrong. Roger Suhr misunderstood what Lindy wrote, with little excuse for doing so. The text "Hund is dog [in German], but a specific type of animal in English" does not lend itself at all readily to the interpretation Mr Suhr gave it. The transformation Unvoiced T <==> voiced D was noted and elaborately documented by the brothers Grimm. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
