tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post493766751739160867..comments2024-02-25T20:07:56.114-06:00Comments on Mr. Verb: "The oldest words of English"Mr. Verbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04048931596146402872noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-9666756202437075982009-03-06T09:00:00.000-06:002009-03-06T09:00:00.000-06:00CNN has a (badly written) story with references to...CNN has a (badly written) story with references to the "oldest words" this morning:<BR/>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/03/06/words.language.pc/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-31251985562265465052009-02-27T16:36:00.000-06:002009-02-27T16:36:00.000-06:00This is just ridiculous! Just another example of o...This is just ridiculous! Just another example of over-quantifying linguistic phenomena. I've always wondered what these guys do with words that were highly frequent but died out rather quickly - like the cognate of modern-day German 'werden' in English - also a helping verb but completely gone by the early modern period. Compared with a phylogenetic model for evolution, would this be something like a meteor hitting the earth and wiping out the dinosaurs (a large set of morphologies of the genetic code)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-6507342586092714042009-02-26T14:22:00.000-06:002009-02-26T14:22:00.000-06:00This stuff is just entirely crazy. If Pagel doesn'...This stuff is just entirely crazy. If Pagel doesn't have some good clarification here, he may not continue to be taken seriously!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-78417174252473070972009-02-26T10:55:00.000-06:002009-02-26T10:55:00.000-06:00Yup, paleoFREAKINGlithic. I'm thinking it's no sou...Yup, paleoFREAKINGlithic. I'm thinking it's no sound change but lexical replacement that makes different 'words' here. <BR/><BR/>And I should have noted that I caught the story from a post on ADS-L.Mr. Verbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04048931596146402872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-81624031453242675442009-02-26T10:26:00.000-06:002009-02-26T10:26:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.goofyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760721504519661112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159158.post-59288338354442770022009-02-26T07:32:00.000-06:002009-02-26T07:32:00.000-06:00Damn it! That's what I was going to say...Damn it! That's what I was going to say...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com