Re: Skälansk - History and Babel text

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:43:36 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:

>On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, at 10:44 , Keith Gaughan wrote:
>
>If the conclusion of the research by these scholars from the islands
>Sjaelland, Lolland, Holster and Møn in Denmark in the late middle ages was
>that it was not found in any other known language, then with respect one
>really has to ask how thorough the research was.
Well, their research possibilities were quite limited. Their independence
was a thorn in the eye of the other nordic countries, who constantly
attacked them and probably would've even succeded if they hadn't spent the
vast majority of their troops already to fight among each other about who
would get the islands. The Frankonians and Germans would also rather see
them as a part of their empires, but luckily for them were busy fending off
attacks coming from the east and the south. So they practically couldn't
turn anywhere for help in that matter, so they only had the knowledge they
got from travelling merchants and such.

>They really should have discovered that it was used, but less common than
>SVO or SOV. Far rarer are those languages that regularly put the object
>before the subject with OSV apparently being the rarest among the world's
>languages.
I considered that, but that seemed me too much of a change.

--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
Choton: http://www.choton.org
Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/
Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/
Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/