[tied] Re: Was proto-romance a pidgin?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> >> and some of the lost irregularity is reinstated.
>
> Anything "lost" in language cannot be reinstated. Lost

irregularities in

> particular can never be "reinstated", but can be recreated by

analogies and

> the like (the way English makes new irregularities

with "thunk" "praught"

> etc) but as such they bear no necessary relationship to the original
> situation.
>
> If they are "reinstated" they cannot have been lost.
>

Sorry for my imprecise wording. What I meant is that conservative
forms survive for special situations in special groups, and from
there are reinstated as 'proper' forms.

Torsten