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

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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