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L O W L A N D S - L - 25 January 2007 - Volume 06

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From: Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong <Dutchmatters at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Phonology' 2007.01.25 (03) [E]

About this idea that "sign language" would be a relatively new invention
(Jonny) and Ron's reply that " What makes you assume that?  Can you think of
any sign language that was invented and adopted in recent times?  I thought
the roots of sign languages were somewhere in the murky past just like those
of other types of languages -- and *all* languages are in a perpetual state
of development ...

I would say Ron wins this argument, but he is maybe not forceful enough.
Anybody who knows the language of cat ears and/or dog tails knows better.

This brings me to another word which is obviously is not onomatopoetic, but
poetic in an entirely different way. The English word "Self-evident", or
better still its Dutch equivalent "vanzelfsprekend" is an entirely different
kind of 'Malerei'. Jacqueline

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