Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

Peter Morwood & Diane Duane wrote:

> I've definitely been away from NY too long.  :)  Would you care to talk a
> little about what this is?
Well, it's a systematic change in certain vowels.  For example,
"Ann" is pronounced the way "Ian" used to be pronounced.

>
> >...we also have "dove",
>
> Still present here as a "fossilized" form.  Very country.
Actually it's an innovation.

> >..."shat",...
>
> We have this one too, though it's rare.  I heard it in Dublin recently,
> though, which surprised me a little. Possibly a back-formation...?
No, analogy.  sit-sat, shit-shat.  But the original verb was
shite-shit-shitten, like bite; I believe in Ireland "shite" is
still current?  (My father, born in an Irish enclave in Philadelphia
in 1904, used it regularly).

> >... and (according
> >to And) "twug" = "realized, comprehended".
>
> I would have thought "to twig" was a very UKish construction.  Are two of
> the Great Englishes drawing sneakily closer together, then?  ;)
"And" = And Rosta, a conlangist who lives in the U.K.
As far as I know, "twig" is not normally used in this sense in the
U.S., which is why I glossed it.

BTW, if you are *the* Diane Duane, Romulan is an impressive conlang!

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)