[bksvol-discuss] Re: Rise And Fall Of The 3rd Reich
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:18:20 -0600
One interesting tidbit about linguistic drift. According to an article on
Scientific American I read several years ago, it has historically taken
about 5,000 years for linguistic drift to generate two languages without
commonalities from an original ancestral language.
G.
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Rise And Fall Of The 3rd Reich
Hi all,
Yeh, Pratik, you're probably right. Written language doesn't shift as
fast as does the spoken word. Guido's going by the common spoken
usage. I haven't heard anyone use arouse in spoken English with its
original connotation in decades. Just wait a few more and the written
word will copy the spoken one. Just wait a generation and the verb To
Skype will be placed right after Sky lark in the dictionary. <smiling>
Ann P.
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