Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:14:06 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>> What are /slEp/ and /wEp/ past tenses of?  "sleep" and "weep"?
>Yup.  What makes this case interesting is that both were strong
>in OE, then became irregular-weak in ME by adding the regular
>weak ending "-ede", and are now moving back toward the strong
>conjugation again.
Irregular-weak meaning "slept", "wept" as opposed to "sleeped", "weeped"?
What about "learnt"?  I use that and "learned" nearly interchangeably,
except in certain situations where one 'sounds better', such as poetry.


-Stephen (Steg)


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>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)
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