Re: Negation

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61911
Date: 2008-12-06

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From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>

> Now you translate that sentence in French,
> and I let you explain me which words are inherited.
>
> "je n'ai jamais lu que quelqu'un ait proposé que les mots courts
devraient
> être considérés plus probablement hérités que les longs".
>
> As far as I can see, all words are inherited or made with inherited
> morphemes.

On the contrary - consider the words with 3 or more syllables:
proposé, considérés, probablement, hérités. They're all borrowed from
Latin rather than inherited.
Richard.

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Borrowed ??

Old French porposer, consirer, eriter

These words are not borrowed,
They have been graphically retro-latinified by the orthographic purist
tradition,
this has nothing to do borrowing.

A.