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2012-08-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Study: Turkey the Birthplace of Hindi, English

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Posted by Fred 2012-08-25 00:39|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Dang, Fred! I'm at a loss for words.

Posted by SteveS 2012-08-25 09:11|| 2012-08-25 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Luckily for us, SteveS, Fred isn't. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2012-08-25 09:44|| 2012-08-25 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 My favorite linguistic theory is that Latin so over-developed and extended applications of its ablative case that disgusted barbarians, attempting to master it, simply gave up & use the ablative for EVERYTHING, which then created the Romance languages, where all nouns tend to end in "o" or "a".

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-08-25 10:53|| 2012-08-25 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 This theory tends to take credit for any language that might have borrowed a common word from another which is somewhat dodgy. English borrows from everyone, thus every other language can claim the birthplace of English. Is bonsai common? What about Siesta? Certainly common enough that teens don't need to look either up.

Posted by rjschwarz 2012-08-25 11:58|| 2012-08-25 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I always go back to the roots.

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Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-25 12:10|| 2012-08-25 12:10|| Front Page Top

#6 English doesn't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. - James Nicoll

Posted by Cromert 2012-08-25 20:54|| 2012-08-25 20:54|| Front Page Top

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