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  1. ramonmercado

    Language Evolution Over Time (New Words; Inter-Era Intelligibility; Etc.)

    newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8163 Link is dead. The MIA webpage (quoted in full above) can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20051102020005/http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8163 Related Articles Structure exposes the evolutionary roots of languages...
  2. A

    Linguistic Similarities, Both Derived & Deliberate (Borrowed Words, Etc.)

    "Butter and cheese is good English and good Fries" that is a saying that I heard a few times in Aurich in Ost Friesland in Germany. The Friesian language is very closely related to old English and some similarities exist to modern English. The sentence above means exactly the same in both...
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