Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:19:48 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>>
>> Latin, for instance, distinguishes -m. (-em, as in the accusative)
>> from -n. (-en, as in the -mn.-neuters, no:men, etc.).
>
>To which one might argue that whoever designed Latin orthography
>didn't want a stem to alternate as much as *-em, *-in-, and therefore
>made an allowance for "etymological spelling" in such cases.

To which one might argue that in that case one might expect to see abundant
and early spellings with -em for -en in grafitti and other less formal
contexts.


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