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  Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy

Replies: 735
Views: 332679

PostForum: Linguistics   Posted: 3:15 am   Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
It's okay, I came back.
  Topic: How the Ancients measured the Earth
rexleroy

Replies: 276
Views: 129278

PostForum: Megalithic   Posted: 2:58 am   Subject: How the Ancients measured the Earth
Light the beacon the instant you see the Sun from the Norfolk coast. Supposing it takes 30 seconds for each beacon to be seen by the next, the "Sunrise in Norfolk" message will arrive at St. ...
  Topic: Way Out West
rexleroy

Replies: 193
Views: 114125

PostForum: Pre-History   Posted: 4:26 pm   Subject: Way Out West
So as my model has it, those fields were not "salted" to insure they remained abandoned, as legend has it. Those fields were "salted" to bring them to life. They were "salted ...
  Topic: Way Out West
rexleroy

Replies: 193
Views: 114125

PostForum: Pre-History   Posted: 4:21 pm   Subject: Way Out West
Some of us don't believe the event ever happened
Yes, that's what I mean: there is only one story of salting the earth and even then it didn't do what it was said to, so it was clearly not a known te ...
  Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy

Replies: 735
Views: 332679

PostForum: Linguistics   Posted: 11:24 pm   Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Everyone over at my other place is responding pretty much how it always goes here. So I let fly with increasing verve.

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Speakers spewing SOV cannot just gradually switch to the more reason ...
  Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy

Replies: 735
Views: 332679

PostForum: Linguistics   Posted: 10:17 pm   Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
1. I haven't been able to find an ebook for sale of THOBR, by the buy, and while I do want a copy of the real thing, I don't have much library space at the moment. Is it still for purchase somewhere? ...
  Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy

Replies: 735
Views: 332679

PostForum: Linguistics   Posted: 7:43 pm   Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
The basic claim is: contrary to all the bullshit we have been taught, Languages Do Not Change Rapidly. You will not find any texts displaying intermediate forms between supposedly mother-daughter lang ...
  Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy

Replies: 735
Views: 332679

PostForum: Linguistics   Posted: 7:43 pm   Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
I'm riffing off (or ripping off) a book proposing that the autochthons of Britain (or at least the first-comers) were a racial group that spoke an English that was no more different from what we speak ...
  Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy

Replies: 735
Views: 332679

PostForum: Linguistics   Posted: 7:42 pm   Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
I have nothing original to say yet. But I am spreading the good word to a community of friends who are almost certain to reject it soundly. Here's my rehashing of what I learned this week:

We are ...
  Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy

Replies: 735
Views: 332679

PostForum: Linguistics   Posted: 4:36 am   Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
The process is an interesting one, involving not writing a particular "joke", then noting that somebody else duly posts it, you seeing that it was not funny because not actually original, sp ...
 
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