Alex Langley: Re: Antony Green: Clarification of Synchronic vs. Historical Linguistics

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

From: "Alex Langley" <alangley at onebox.com>
To: The Celtic Linguistics List <CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>

T· gaeilge-a agus gaidhlig-a agus welsh-l ann fÛs, nach ea?
There are still gaeilge-a, gaidhlig-a and welsh-l, no?

http://listserv.heanet.ie has the answers.

Alasdair


>----         "Elizabeth J. Pyatt" <ejp10 at psu.edu> wrote:
>>  From: Antony Green <green at ling.uni-potsdam.de>
>>  X-Accept-Language: ga,de,en>To: The Celtic Linguistics List
>>  <CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>>  Subject: Re: Moderator:Clarification of Synchronic vs. Historical
>>Linguistics
>>
>>  "Elizabeth J. Pyatt" wrote:
>>  >  "(So etymology is no longer linguistics?)"
>>  >
>>  >  It is of course, but this brings up an important issue from Andrew
>>  >  Carnie's days as moderator. Way back in the ancient days of the
>>  >  mid-90's it was noted that there are a variety of Listservs that
>>  >  serve the older Celtic languages including continental-celtic and
>>  Old
>>  >  Irish-L.
>>
>>  But those listservs are not the place to discuss the historical
>>  linguistics and etymology of the modern languages.  If I'm interested
>>  in some sound change or morphological change that happened between
>>  Middle Irish and Modern Irish, or the etymology of some Modern Irish
>>  word that doesn't exist in Old Irish, Old Irish-L and continental-celtic
>>  are not the place to post the question.
>>
>>  And it's not like our mailboxes are full to stuffing with messages
>>  from
>>  Celtling anyway!
>>
>>  le meas
>>  Tonio
>>
>>  --
>>  "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
>>  English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore.  We don't just borrow
>>  words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways
>>  to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
>>                                                            James D.
>>  Nicoll
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