dave schrieb:
I presume some of you have read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_Tongue
Dave
No, I haven't read the book, but maybe will. One of my other hobbies
beside electronics etc. is linguistics...
Peter
On 01/05/2012 04:57 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 5 January 2012 06:04, Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com 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
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.
Peter
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,
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:53:34 -0500
Mark Wendt mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil wrote:
On 01/05/2012 04:57 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On 5 January 2012 06:04, Kent A. Reedknbr...@erols.com wrote:
Next discussion: why did the l reappear in spelling?
It's amazing we manage to
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 place.
Gentle persons:
This is an argument patterned after an old joke about mathematicians,
physicists, and engineers.
Theorem:
All words of the form consonant-o-l-d-e-r are pronounced as older
preceded by the appropriate consonant.
Proof:
bolder = bolder - yes
colder = colder - yes
folder =
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 reappear in
