--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "By a wholly barbarous combination finding no > warrant in the earlier and more genuine usages > of the [Sanskrit] language, the suffixes of > comparison in their adverbial feminine form, > -taraam and -tamaam, are later allowed to > be added to personal forms of verbs: thus, > [...] *siidatetaraam*, /is more despondent/..." > > - Whitney, Sanskrit grammar > > For the sake of clarity, let's pretend that > /-ger/ is the comparative suffix in "bigger", > or /-ler/ in "fuller". > Then for instance "creates-ger" or "creates-ler" > would be, in the meaning 'creates more', somewhat analogous > to /siidate-taraam/ above! >
The guy gots to get out more. The nature of language is change. I'm reading an interesting book right now, _The Language Instcint_ by Steven Pinker. Languages *evolve*. Even the most primitive language will evolve once kids start using it. Only a literary language like classical Latin, Sanskrit or Hebrew, won't evolve. My guess is that spoken Iraeli is not very much the Hebrew of the Torah any more, whch probably drives the conservatives nuts.
