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  1. @bana76 Awesome. about 22 hours ago from Twitterrific in reply to bana76
  2. @Raevyns Hehe. Grats. That's an awesome story. 4:31 PM Nov 20th from web in reply to Raevyns
  3. http://cortandfatboy.com/ It passes the time at work while you wait for Mythbusters to download. 9:49 AM Nov 20th from web
  4. @mdhughes I had that happen to me last week. Gave me a heart attack because I was travelling. Thank fuck it decided to work after a bit. 8:51 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to mdhughes
  5. @qurgh You might be very interested in reading about Creoles and pidgins. The wiki articles are pretty decent. 3:55 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to qurgh
  6. @qurgh Which is, to some very large degree, the whole point of modern linguistics. Yes. Awesome. 3:53 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to qurgh
  7. @qurgh Sharing lexical items is a very very old way of adding them. No better no worse than any other method. 3:36 PM Nov 19th from web in reply to qurgh
  8. @qurgh All the words in English that you don't think of as "loan words" because they were added in the distant past being a prime example. 3:34 PM Nov 19th from web in reply to qurgh
  9. @qurgh one every language ever has had. 3:33 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to qurgh
  10. @qurgh a very old one. You're just aware of it in the modern time because you have the knowledge to notice it. If it is a deficinency it's 3:33 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to qurgh
  11. @qurgh The concept of "loan words" has no basis in any model of lexical items. There areany different ways of evolving a lexical item that's 3:31 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to qurgh
  12. @dssstrkl Ahhh. I see. 3:21 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to dssstrkl
  13. @dssstrkl to see of this all started over prayer Hebrew or modern Hebrew. So can't really say anything about that. 3:14 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to dssstrkl
  14. @dssstrkl Yeah. To harp on that would feel like pilling on somebody I really do basically like. I'm also not willing to go back far enough 3:13 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to dssstrkl
  15. Most of what you think you know about language is wrong. 3:06 PM Nov 19th from web
  16. Before this goes much further to quote @juliefriday "Just because you have a urinary tract doesn't mean you perform urinary tract surgery" 3:06 PM Nov 19th from web
  17. @dssstrkl Huh? 3:05 PM Nov 19th from web in reply to dssstrkl
  18. @mdhughes want to talk about a new tech. I'm sure you can see rhe obvious problem with this scenario. 3:01 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to mdhughes
  19. @mdhughes Your assertion would mean that for years there are loads of French people walking around grunting and pointing every time they 3:00 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to mdhughes
  20. @qurgh requires a linguistics course. During the course of which I had several tests that included Klingon, btw. It's fun. 2:56 PM Nov 19th from Twitterrific in reply to qurgh
  • Name Ray Percival
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