Re: Negation

>> If this principle were true, we'd be left with only short words like
>> /u/
>> after 200 000 years.
>
> I said "other things being equal". Getting shorter is easier than
> getting lengthened. Entropy takes care of that.

I think that an important difference between shortening and lenghtening
is that single phonememes are dropped, whereas whole morphemes or even
whole words are added.

P.A.