deixis

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:44 AM +0000 8/18/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>The most frequent encounter of tradsteeng "ei" is in tradstreeng
>"eir" in the word "their" or "theirs".  It also represents far and
>away the most frequent sound encountered in text for "ei", which is
>as in ~air.
>

Well, yes, but last I checked, "their(s)" wasn't borrowed from Greek,
which was the context of the exchange below.

LH

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>>  On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>>>  At 12:14 PM +0200 8/17/09, Julia Achenbach wrote:
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>>>>At least in German. I am not too
>>>>sure whether or not the same goes for English.
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>>>  It does for "deixis", "eidolon", and the other few words I can
>>>  think of that have been imported into English.
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