[84536] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Tue Apr 29 13:47:45 2008
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:46:03 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 4/29/2008 09:49:02 AM Central Daylight Time,
sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:
> Okrand discussing borrowing:
>
> KGT 72: It is possible that, at some time in the past, the numerals were
> "borrowed" into the lexicon of music in order to sing the scale [...] It is
> far more likely, however, that the borrowing went in the other direction"
> (KGT 72)
>
> KGT 205: For example, one language may borrow (and, in the process,
> phonetically modify) a word for a concept it lacks.
>
Language borrowing is hardly borrowing per se.
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