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Hi Rex, nice to have you back.
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Yay!
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The world is catching us up. They've reached the stage of asking the question

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In THOBR I claimed most entries in the OED are wrong because of faulty etymological assumptions. It turns out that it was more likely because of the involvement of Sean Penn and Mel Gibson https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932728/
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Mick Harper wrote:


Found this interesting:

Arabs denigrate their own languages of hearth and home as al-ammiya (or darija in North Africa), “slang,”


This Arabic word for "slang" likely means about the same as the English word "vulgar," which was used to describe non-Latin European languages.
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Mick Harper wrote:
In THOBR I claimed most entries in the OED are wrong because of faulty etymological assumptions.


We might want to consider the possibility that the errors were deliberate.
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Not without entering a parallel universe. There are (literally) hundreds of people who have contributed entries to the OED. Were they are all in on the secret?
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And don’t forget the nutcase at the beginning. How could they have got him in on it?
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You're referring to Step Six in this section of our own great founding work (soon to be published)

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Since there were no Anglo-Saxons to speak of in Scotland, it might be thought this [the theory that English is an evolved form of Anglo-Saxon] would result in a few Glasgow kisses being handed round, but the Scots are reasonably well-educated and have come up with a plan of their own devising

Step 1: Scots are speaking Celtic
It’s a given

Step 2: Some Anglo-Saxons from Northumbria push into the Lothians for a bit
No boats required

Step 3: Scots take fright, ditch Celtic, take up Anglo-Saxon
We’ve always held the Indian sign over them

Step 4: Scots turn Anglo-Saxon quite independently into a completely different language they call Lallan Scots
Which turns out to be uncannily similar to English

Step 5: After the Anschluss with England, the Scots ditch Lallan Scots for Standard English like everyone else
Except during Burns Night

Step 6: Scots take over the English dictionary industry
Not a word of thanks either

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Or do you mean the mad one?
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Not without entering a parallel universe. There are (literally) hundreds of people who have contributed entries to the OED. Were they are all in on the secret?


Of course not. But that's not how you play this game.

You start with a premise then see if you can make it work. First problem: Everyone has to be in on it. So. Is there a way the errors could be deliberate and everyone NOT be in on it? That's how it's done.
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I got there before you

There is nothing new in any of this. In the high Middle Ages demand for religious relics was so great, and the pilgrim trade so profitable, there must have been workshops turning them out in volume. Even a simple piece of the True Cross is not something your average vicar can knock up behind the vestry. Where was he to get one? Where was a pilgrimage centre to get its full complement of sacred accessories? And to add to the difficulties, how were they to be acquired without the staff knowing? They are True Believers too.

But I wish to hear more about the OED model. Would you be kind enough to spell it out. Just a little.
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But I wish to hear more about the OED model. Would you be kind enough to spell it out. Just a little.


Shucks. I'm just making this up as I go along.

However; what I do know is this: The ancient history of Britain was faked and everything prior to 1812 and much prior to 1867 has been tampered with. That means someone had a motive to fake that history (though, as to the nature of the motive, I can yet only speculate).

Nevertheless, word origins are inherently historical in nature (being traced to a supposed ancient past). Therefore, whatever motivations inspired the forging of history, those same motivations would have been present for the writing of the dictionary.

Now; it's quite possible that the fake history came first and the authors of the dictionary simply worked with what they were given. But it is at least nearly as likely that the authors of the dictionary were part of the process of historical forgery.

To flesh out this hypothesis, we have to ask that question you gave us; how was the historical content of the dictionary to be forged "without the staff knowing?"
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As you know, I am not as nervelessly radical as you are so my assumption is that modern academics came up with

1. English is evolved Anglo-Saxon
2. Anglo-Saxon is a Germanic language
3. The Latinate content of English was provided by the Normans

The compilers of the OED assumed all this to be not just true but self-evidently true and therefore looked at every word in the OED (apart from neologisms etc) and decided either

1. It was either Germanic or it was Latinate
2. Looked for similar words in either Germanic or Latinate languages
3. Provided an etymological origin of the word accordingly.

Since everybody in the entire world (apart from us) prostrates themselves on the ground in worship of the OED, everything is calm and ordered in the world. Just like everyone likes it (apart from us).
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OLD ENLGISH Pidlisna
Liudmila Pidlisna
Crazee gal, crazee speller.

INTRODUCTION
Languages, like nations, have their own history. Studying the rise and growth o! the language is no less exciting than studying the world’s history. One cannot explain the structure and peculiarities of the contemporary English language without knowing the main lines o! its centuries old evolution.

Out of the mouth of babes. Though it is worth pointing out that the contemporary English language has not been evolving for centuries, it has been evolving for the thousands of years since the birth of language. Something linguists and historians, with their crazee insistence on always working with the written record and their crazee demand that everything be given a label so it can be put on one of their lists, have a woeful tendency to forget.
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Many moons ago in a thread on Anglo-French Relations, Korea was proposed as having a claim to being one of the earliest nation-states. I have just been reading a Twitter thread by the aptly named 'Incunabula' about

The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement.

https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1574546784365445136

It made me wonder how easy or hard it is to comprehend Korean texts some of which are said to be 750+ years old. The texts are in Hanja script which, according to Wiki, is the traditional writing system used for Korean documents, history, literature and records throughout its history until the modern period.

It is the oldest intact version of Buddhist canon in Hanja script, with no known errors or errata in the 52,330,152 characters which are organized in over 1496 titles and 6568

though Wiki also mentions there are 'older versions' and content 'added by monks', which rings alarm bells

The historical value of the Tripiá¹­aka Koreana comes from the fact that it is the most complete and accurate extant collection of Buddhist treatises, laws, and scriptures.[2] The compilers of the Korean version incorporated older Northern Song Chinese, Khitan, and Goryeo versions, and added content written by respected Korean monks.

The woodblocks were originally kept in a temple until 1970 when a selection was rehoused in a new purpose-built storage unit whereupon the wood began to deteriorate and had to be moved back again. Somewhat reminiscent of what happened to cave paintings when visitors started to enter the caves

Haeinsa, the temple in which the Tripiá¹­aka Koreana is stored, While most of the wood blocks have remained in pristine condition for more than 750 years a few were damaged when a new depository was built in the early 1970s (by the Park Chung-hee regime) and a few blocks were transplanted to the new building on a trial basis. Those blocks were damaged almost immediately. They were subsequently moved back to their initial spots and the new building was shut down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripitaka_Koreana
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