Re: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin)

At 17:00 -0600 20.1.2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>
>Yeah, that's a good theory. I think a lot of people still conceive of
>"Canada", "America", and other such Latin-derived words as having endings,
>for purposes of derivation at least. So, the stem for "Canada" is
>"Canad-", "America" "Americ-", etc. With that reanalysis of the morpheme
>boundary, it then becomes only logical to use "-ian" as a suffix to make
>the proper noun into an adjective.
I think awareness personal name pairs like Paul/Paula increases the
awareness of such stems too, at least in the language-aware.

I and my Choosen One have an ongoing argument whether the Swedish adjective
to her name is "Paulinsk" or "Paulask".  She argues that her name isn't
Paulina, and I that the stem of her name is /paul-/.  As if a non-linguist
would care!  I might be prepared to settle for "Paulansk"... :-)



/BP

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