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

What do Dick and Peter or pussycat have to do with word taboos?


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:49 PM
Subject: 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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