Re: Negation

--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Negation
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 12:24 PM
> On 2008-12-05 12:15, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
> > I've never read that somebody proposed that short
> words should be
> > considered more probably inherited than long ones !?
> > Is there a theory on that ?
>
> Let us have a look at the parapgaph above. It contains the
> following
> monosyllabic words:
>
> I, have, read, that [conj.], short, words, should, be,
> more, than, long,
> ones, is, there, a, on, that [pron.]
>
> The following words are polysyllabic:
>
> never, somebody, proposed, considered, probably, inherited,
> theory
>
> In which group is there a larger proportion of inherited
> words?
>
> Piotr

It definitely works for English vis-à-vis French
BUT what about vice-versa: le boxe, le shit, etc.
Also what about Chinese loanwords in Japanese?