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Re: BrSc Akuefi

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Friday, June 25, 2004, 17:24
On Jun 24, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Ray Brown wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 06:43 , Dirk Elzinga wrote: >> Grammatica vna et eadem est secundum substanciam in omnibus linguis, >> licet accidentaliter varietur. - Roger Bacon (1214-1294) > > Sounds a bit Chomskyan ;)
Well, Bacon can't do anything about that :-). By the way, how would you translate this passage? Last year I posted a query to the LINGUIST-List about it, and I got varying responses (none of which I can remember now, and they don't seem to be on my hard drive anymore). Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu Grammatica vna et eadem est secundum substanciam in omnibus linguis, licet accidentaliter varietur. - Roger Bacon (1214-1294)

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>a 13th cent Chomsky? (was: BrSc Akuefi)