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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