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Re: "Theory informs practice" - OK?

From:Alex Fink <000024@...>
Date:Friday, November 14, 2008, 0:55
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:15:08 -0800, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:

>Au contraire x2: the past tense *would* be "blank" if that word >didn't already exist! That's why "blunk" comes out first (same >with "wink/wunk"). It's a blocking effect.
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. Or, is it in fact true that there's a correlation, that we've lost more strong forms of verbs that collide with other words than which don't? Alex

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David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>