Re: Native Grammatical terms
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 20:59 |
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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^)
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