Re: Natlang redundancies WASRe: A question and introduction

It makes sense though - as soon as we "chunk" terms together in an acronym,
some semantic content is lost - the same thing happens with old words which
have lost their meaning for most of the speakers but continue to be used out
of habit (eg. chainmail armour - is chainmail one word or two?) - and it
only makes sense that this would happen when a place name is borrowed into
another language...


>From: Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
>
>Siyo!
>This is a contemporary phenomenon, too.  "ATM machine"
>means "automated teller machine machine" and "PIN
>number" means "personal identification number number".
>
>Clint
>
>
> > BTW, the phenomenon you describe is common in the
> > world's languages:
> > In "Missisippi River", the Fox morphemes are "big
> > river", and in
> > "Gobi Desert" it's "great desert".
>
>
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