[tied] Re: Middle English Plurals

From: tgpedersen
Message: 29348
Date: 2004-01-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
> Torsten:
> >Thank you Glen, for the demonstration.
>
> A demonstration of how absurd it is. Modern day "Anglophonia"
> live largely in societies undergoing extreme stratification,
diversification
> and specialisation. As such, subculturality flourishes as an output
of
> this state of affairs. The complicated modern day happenings of our
> society do not form a good basis for any model of an ancient
society.
>

So did Rome in its final stages.

I remember one time in America I told this guy I was from Denmark. He
thought long for something appropriate to say, the he asked: "Don't
you find it very modern here?"

Torsten