Re: Re[2]: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52447
Date: 2008-02-07

Really? How many young mengo by Dick and Peter these
days? Why do you only hear the term "pussycat" in old
movies, nursery rhymes and Bond films?


--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> That is very interesting. It would have never
> occurred to me as a causal
> factor.
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:35 AM
> Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Languages Evolve in
> Punctuational Bursts
>
>
> > Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Australian and Greenland Inuit: these
> populations are
> > > literally bombarded with non-Inuit material; and
> being
> > > small populations, they have no means of
> defending their
> > > linguistic cultural heritage.
> >
> > According to the Britannica:
> >
> > Greenlandic contains four loanwords from
> medieval
> > Norse; from the colonial period after 1721 there
> have
> > been surprisingly few borrowings until the
> mid-20th
> > century.
> >
> > However, its speakers practise a form of word
> taboo that has
> > resulted in an unusually high rate of lexical
> turnover.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
>



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