Re: [T] -> [f] (was: Chinese Dialect Question)
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 5, 2003, 14:05 |
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>>>The change also occurred in pre-Latin
>>
>>Oh, sure, but that's a historical change. Seeing it happening
>>"in real time" in one's own language is different.
>
>How so? Doesn't the fact that it can be seen to be happening
>confirm what was suspected about the situation in the past?
>Doesn't one give greater credence to the other?
Otherway round, I'd quess: just because it happened in a language in the
past doesn't mean that one is sitting about with bated breath awaiting it to
happen in one's own language in present day.
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