From: Petr Hrubis
Message: 63967
Date: 2009-05-30
>That's right. In some languages, class prefixes are employed to avoid
>
> On 2009-05-29 01:50, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
>> If for you is Ok to have in the same language mane:re 'to remain' and
>> mane:re 'to warn' and to continue to use them like this for the next 200
>> years than is 'ad-hoc' for sure.
>>
>> But normally anybody wants to can clearly say 'I remain' in place that
>> 'I warn'
>
> Speakers of English must be abnormal if they have put up for centuries
> with the homophony of <die> and <dye> or <lie> [1] 'recline' and <lie>
> [2] 'tell lies'. What we *normally* observe in the history of languages
> is that phonetic changes are *not* blocked to avoid homophony. With a
> pair of verbs one of which ('warn') is transitive and the other
> ('remain') intransitive there is no real ambiguity. Their different
> syntactic properties make confusion impossible.