Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 2, 2003, 0:57 |
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Tristan scripsit:
> But some believe a harf-hearted spelling reform is what we need... I
> just reckon we should send standard English to wherever it is Classical
> Latin lives.
Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_
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