Re: in other ways...
| From: | BP Jonsson <melroch@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 2, 1999, 13:13 |
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Message from: "BP Jonsson" bpj@netg.se, melroch@hotbot.com
>Potential history of English language. This how it could be :
>saying "royal" but writing "kingisk".
Just for the record: Middle Persian was the other way around, they wrote _royal_
but said "kingly", so to speak. (Actually: wrote MLK but said "shah"!)
>Has anybody done this potential development for languages?
>What would have happened to English if normans had been beaten!
William Morris pondered that question, as has Poul Anderson. Both have experimented
with texts too.
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