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It's okay, I came back.

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 3:15 am Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	It's okay, I came back.
Topic: How the Ancients measured the Earth
rexleroy Replies: 276 Views: 209987	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 2:58 am Subject: How the Ancients measured the Earth
rexleroy Replies: 276 Views: 209987	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: 194 Views: 219279	Forum: Pre-History Posted: 4:26 pm Subject: Way Out West
rexleroy Replies: 194 Views: 219279	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: 194 Views: 219279	Forum: Pre-History Posted: 4:21 pm Subject: Way Out West
rexleroy Replies: 194 Views: 219279	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: 533129	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 11:24 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	Everyone over at my other place is responding pretty much how it always goes here. So I let fly with increasing verve. ----- Speakers spewing SOV cannot just gradually switch to the more reason ...
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 10:17 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	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: 533129	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 7:43 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	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: 533129	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 7:43 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	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: 533129	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 7:42 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	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: 533129	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:36 am Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
rexleroy Replies: 735 Views: 533129	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 ...