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Re: Native Grammatical terms

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 20:59
At 03:02 19.11.2003, John Cowan wrote:

>Well, it's not unknown for sound changes to be perfectly "smooth", >as in Old Norse > Icelandic.
Not really. A lot of ON assonances don't make sense any more, and the quantity shift has messed up the rythm quite often -- there are no actual short syllables anymore. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /'Aestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>Quantity shift (was: Re: Native grammatical terms)