Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>Look at French, which evolved Latin /e:/ into /wa/ or /E/ without rhyme or
>reason ;))) (there is *really* no rule).
Is that really an example of random changes, or of the standard taking some
forms one 'lect and others from another.

I can't find it now, but I saw a pretty scary Danish example of the later. I
shan't swear to the exact forms, but something like this: the modern
prescriptive forms _muje_ and _fo/de_ ("o/"=o-slash) are different dialects'
treatments of originals similar to modern Swedish _möda_ och _föda_
("ö"=o-umlaut).


                     Andreas

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