Re: "Theory informs practice" - OK?

Alex:
<<
What, are you ignoring diachrony?  Back when the ancestor of "blank"
would've been a plausible past of the ancestor of "blink", there
wasn't any
"blank" adj.; we stole that from French later.
 >>

No, I think that "blunk" is purely a present time joke, and we
can't erase our knowledge of the word "blank" right now.  Had
the joke been made *before* "blank" made its way into English,
*then* "blank" would've been a likely made-up past tense.

-David
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