Re: [tied] De Vulgari Regularitate (earlier: substratums)

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > (And we don't have oxen nowadays, so we aren't tempted to
> say 'oxes'.)
>
> And we don't have øksne nowadays, so therefore we say 'okser'.
>
> I understand that when you say "we, people, the world" you mean "we
> Anglophones, the people of Anglophonia, the English-speaking world"

The first 'we' probably meant Western and Northern Europe, non-Latin
North America and English-speaking Australasia. The second 'we'
referred to the English-speakers of that area.

> Danish has no s-plural, so it's "en hotdogs, to hotdogs".

Do educated Danes use foreign plural inflections in foreign words?

And what about the other languages list members speak?

> > We ... nowadays rarely talk about lice.

> That might backfire.

It did, in the 70's. I don't know whether headlice are yet back
under control in British schools. Before then, I would have
said 'don't' rather than rarely.

Richard.