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  • From: "Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwoodcreative.com>
  • To: "'K Randolph'" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: 'Hebrew' <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Aviv and Exodus 9:31
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:19:07 -0600

Karl:



You write:

Modern English is a creole, a mixture of Old English and medieval French,
with a massive dollop of Latin with other languages mixed into the mess. Only
a fairly small percentage of modern English is from Old English, mainly words
that are in the most common spoken use.



I reply:

So what? The “native” name was replaced by a foreign name; it doesn’t really
matter whether the new name derived from the clergy or the Conqueror, in
either case it exemplifies what Randall suggested.



You write:

German is a better example, why I used the word “tend” instead of saying
“never”. Even there, does this represent a change over from a lunar month
system to a solar one?



I reply:

Nobody knows. But if it does, again, so what? Is the change a grassroots
movement?



Stoney Breyer

Writer/Touchwood Creative







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