[ExI] aside: xenophobia
Brian Manning Delaney
listsb at infinitefaculty.org
Fri Oct 30 04:18:59 UTC 2015
El 2015-10-29 a las 02:26, Anders Sandberg escribió:
> Still, Poul Anderson showed how it might have looked if it had at least
> kept to being a Germanic language:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language.artificial/ZL4e3fD7eW0/_7p8bKwLJWkJ
Very cool! But there were of course several different Germanic (broadly
speaking: the language family) influences in English. The English have
always been a motley crew. I assume he just switched out Latinate
words/roots for the most common contemporary English equivalent.
On a related note: The period of merger between the Franco-Norman idiom
spoken in England and English (not long before Shakespeare's time --
even up to his time in some areas) led to the cool phenomenon of "legal
doublets". The authorities wanted to make sure the Normans and the
Anglos both would understand, so they emphasized certain concepts by
using two words to describe them, one Latinate, one English. A lot of
these are still widely used today: "cease and desist", "null and void", etc.
- Brian
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