From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52486
Date: 2008-02-07
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts
> Because they've become taboo due to their secondary
> meanings. You rarely hear them in modern English.
> Ever watch the The Three Stooges? Remember they're
> always using the term "puss" for "face". Ever heard
> anyone use it that way recently?
> In fact, the term "sourpuss" has been pretty much
> replaced by "pussyface" among younger people as in
> "Don't give me that pussyface!"
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> > 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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