Wed 24 Aug, 2016 07:55 pm - I am talking specifically about the native language of Britain, before the English. For some reason it simply disappeared when the Anglo-Saxons arrived on the coast of the North Sea in the 5th... (view)
Thu 18 Aug, 2016 08:07 pm - And I want to add to that. I am not interested in the official family classes. I want to classify the true language families and tie them together in their historical roots. (view)
Mon 15 Aug, 2016 12:03 pm - Perhaps. I have not studied German nearly as much to know, however. But I have a sneaking suspicion that most every language has loanwords. In my opinion, linguistics takes a simplistic approach... (view)
Mon 15 Aug, 2016 10:27 am - Grouping languages into families is based on grammatical similarities. Why is vocabulary, word etymology, adstratum, etc. not included with language classification? (view)
Mon 15 Aug, 2016 09:38 am - Simple answer: because it's differently used in linguistics since nearly 500 years.
That's what I said.
Then I asked why it's not used in language classification. (view)
Mon 15 Aug, 2016 09:04 am - "Why not the vocabulary?"
You: "Because vocabulary is not a good determination of language origin because it is too mobile and transient for classification."
I:... (view)
Sun 14 Aug, 2016 03:45 pm - Oh, I see. Borrow really means to adopt and a loanword is adopted. It still doesn't change my stance. Doesn't adopt mean to become part of a family? Thus, English adopted Romance words in... (view)
Sun 14 Aug, 2016 09:22 am - I don't think so...typically loaning something is a temporary thing. If one does not return a loaned item by the due date, it becomes overdue. If the borrower continues to keep the item or... (view)
