Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

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> --- 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.
> >
> >
> 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.

Try 'Robin Hood' and 'Ivanhoe'. That where I get the most of
sociological information. ;-)
A conversation between Robin Hood and the sheriff of Nottingham would
have run much less smoothly than Hollywood makes us believe.


Torsten