dave schrieb:
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> I presume some of you have read:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_Tongue
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> Dave
>
>
No, I haven't read the book, but maybe will. One of my other hobbies
beside electronics etc. is linguistics...
Peter
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:53:34 -0500
Mark Wendt wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 04:57 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> > On 5 January 2012 06:04, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> Next discussion: why did the "l" reappear in spelling?
> >>>
> >
> >> It's amazing we manage to communicate at all given
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Peter Blodow wrote:
> andy pugh schrieb:
> > I am reading a novel set in the Napoleonic war, and I was curious
> > about the ranks of the soldiers (that's got an L in it), specifically
> > the gap between Lieutenant and Lieutenant Commander. Naturally these
> > ar
andy pugh schrieb:
> I am reading a novel set in the Napoleonic war, and I was curious
> about the ranks of the soldiers (that's got an L in it), specifically
> the gap between Lieutenant and Lieutenant Commander. Naturally these
> are pronounced "Lefftenant" in British English because, errr,
> bec
Kent A. Reed schrieb:
> PS - my grandchildren would say the missing "l" is just a sign of the
> season - "NoEl".
>
>
Kent, that's sheds a good light on their intelligence - as soon as you
can start playing with your language, you show that you are it's
sovereign, not the other way around.
P
On 01/05/2012 04:57 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> On 5 January 2012 06:04, Kent A. Reed wrote:
>
>
>>> Next discussion: why did the "l" reappear in spelling?
>>>
>
>> It's amazing we manage to communicate at all given the twists and turns
>> our languages have taken.
>>
> I am readi
On 5 January 2012 06:04, Kent A. Reed wrote:
>> Next discussion: why did the "l" reappear in spelling?
> It's amazing we manage to communicate at all given the twists and turns
> our languages have taken.
I am reading a novel set in the Napoleonic war, and I was curious
about the ranks of the s
On 1/4/2012 2:33 AM, Peter Blodow wrote:
> Kent,
> another physicist thinks that solder is derived from the french word
> souder which, in turn, comes from latin "solidare" meaning "get solid,
> solidify". So, the "l" must have been missing already somehow when taken
> over from French in the first
Kent,
another physicist thinks that solder is derived from the french word
souder which, in turn, comes from latin "solidare" meaning "get solid,
solidify". So, the "l" must have been missing already somehow when taken
over from French in the first place.
Next discussion: why did the "l" reappea
Gentle persons:
This is an argument patterned after an old joke about mathematicians,
physicists, and engineers.
Theorem:
All words of the form "-o-l-d-e-r" are pronounced as "older"
preceded by the appropriate consonant.
Proof:
bolder = older - yes
colder = older - yes
folder = older - yes
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