[tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...>" <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:>

> The term "offspring" had better be reserved for the domain where it
> belongs (genetic relationships). Loans are by definition "foreign
> bodies" in the lexicon.

OK. Maybe, I read Emeneau wrongly. Isn't a linguistic area language
families exchange traits?