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Re: CHAT: barbarisms

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 16, 2001, 21:30
On Wed, 16 May 2001, BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 20:20 2001-05-15 -0400, John Cowan wrote: > > >My point was that Greek words borrowed into English are stressed according > >to Henninian principles, and that this had something to do with the > >dominance of Henninian pronunciation. > > Hardly. Greek loans in Swedish are also stressed according to Latin rules, > in spite of Latin accentuation thankfully never having been applied to > Greek here.
This says to me that Swedish has a Latin-like stress system which all borrowings are subject to. I suspect the same to be true of the other Germanic languages, hence the Latin-like stress patterns of English. Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu "The strong craving for a simple formula has been the undoing of linguists." - Edward Sapir

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