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1. Re: On the subject of idioms ...
From: Andreas Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2. Language change among immortals
From: 轡虫 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:29:19 +0100
From: Andreas Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: On the subject of idioms ...
Quoting João Ricardo de Mendonça <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 11/21/05, Andreas Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm quite familiar with kenningar, thank you - being a Scandinavian with
> > interest in history tends to do that to you! :)
>
> I'm not good at sorting out Scandinavians with an interest in history
> by people's names, so please excuse me for my heresy.
Thou art forgiven. :)
Andreas
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:20:52 -0600
From: 轡虫 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Language change among immortals
This is a question that has been bothering me for a while. I may have
asked the conlangs comm on LJ about it a while ago, but either I
didn't get an answer or I didn't understand/forgot it.
How would a population being immortal, or at least very long-lived,
affect the way that their language evolves?
Tolkien's languages are the only conlangs I can think of at the moment
that are spoken by a very long-lived race, but I haven't studied them
at all. I should probably do that sometime. =)
--
kutsuwamushi
(Watch reply-to, gmail user!)
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