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<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 21 July 2008 - Volume 01<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Grammar" 2008.07.20 (01) [E]<br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
<p>From: Sandy Fleming <span><<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2008.07.18 (03) [E]<br></p>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><div class="Ih2E3d">Is it actually easier to develop and use technical vocabularies in<br>English than in some other languages, and if so, is this at least partly<br>
_because_ of the sparseness of grammatical inflection? In English<br>wholesale borrowing (especially from Greek, in scientific fields) is<br>normal, making it possible to build layers of technical vocabulary, but<br>do foreign loans actually help technical precision because the<br>
scientific or taxonomic meaning isn't influenced by pre-existing<br>semantics? </div><br><div class="Ih2E3d">Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></div>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br>I think this is very much the case; a "Far-seer" could be a
telescope, a television - even a psychic! You don't have to know what
"television" is derived from, you just learn what one is. We could have
used something like Far-seer as in German, but then you need a
"far-watcher" or "far-looker" for telescopes and binoculars. A
"coloured-body" could be anything; a chromosome is one thing only, even
though it just means "coulred body".</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Whether the original creators of Latin/Greek technical terms were
actually being helpful I doubt; I suspect it was all part of the
Classicist idea that these languages are in some way "superior".</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates<br>
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