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Personally I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Oliver Cromwell, The Sony Portapak, various horny swedes and famines in Sweden and Ireland. Why don't we chuck mathowie an hour or so, I mean he's cool and all, but he gets plenty of love as it is.
Re: Jrun, YoYo
I was just about to say something mean to someone in metatalk, maybe I should just retire permanently to metachat and work on my project of convincing you all that rabbits are not that awesome.
Interesting article, and it makes a lot of sense. It would surprise me, though, if this group of researchers' ideas were quite as maverick as they would like us to think.
Doesn't seem exactly commonsensical, but studying only changes in vocabulary is clearly missing part of the picture.
Reminds me of my Japanese students who studied German having an easier time with German grammar than they did with the grammar in my English class. Sentence structure, and thus a core way the individual thinks about language, is similar between the two. Made it easy, or so they said.
I've often thought that structural similarities in language was one of the main reasons for Meiji-era Japan emulating Germany as it opened to the West, adopted Western (German) political, military, and economic structures, and set out on the road to the Pacific war.
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