Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@>
> > wrote:
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> > > What about natives? The loss of gender makes English a lot
> > > easier to learn for its natives, but I'm sure it did not occur
> > > for foreigners' benefit. I think you're greatly overmagnifying
> > > the importance of foreigners for the development of a language.
> > > Just my opinion.
> > >
> It made it easier for the foreigners, and they ran England then.
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>

OK, after having done more research and reacquaintance with English
history, I now find your argument to be legitimate. I was a bit
ill-informed before. I'll have to search through the available
literature to see if there's any support for your contention.

Andrew

Andrew