Re: Negation

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From: "Pavel A. da Mek" <a.da_mek0@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] 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.
>
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So ??

Could you develop the idea ?

A.