Mycenaean (Standardization)

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Tue Apr 27 16:22:08 UTC 1999


>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>And Nestor notices in one province oddly low counts of cows and aurochs and
>no yaks at all.  Upon investigation, he  finds that a dialect has developed
>locally, where cows now mean cows and  aurochs, aurochs mean yaks and yaks
>have a new name.

-- this is, to put it mildly, not a real problem.  You're confusing historic
time with the everyday, ordinary-priorities variety.



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