So do I. I'd already read the abstract but can't get any further.
Tim Send a noteboard - 18/04/2011 08:51:38 AM
So of necessity this had to be an instinctive judgement based on not much evidence. I did e-mail LanguageLog about it though, and there's now an article pointing out potential problems. (Lest it seem as though I'm claiming to be the only person to have pointed it out to them, I'm sure that's not the case.)
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.
—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
/Science: From the NYT: Phonetic Clues Hint Language Is Africa-Born
- 15/04/2011 06:24:38 PM
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I don't have enough information about to say it is wrong but I do have questions
- 15/04/2011 07:07:39 PM
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The point - which isn't made very clear in this article, but I read it elsewhere - is diversity.
- 15/04/2011 09:44:37 PM
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I can't assess it without reading the whole paper.
- 15/04/2011 11:25:22 PM
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It does not sound like rubbish to me. I have an MA in linguistics.
- 17/04/2011 04:38:35 PM
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So do I. I'd already read the abstract but can't get any further.
- 18/04/2011 08:51:38 AM
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Have written to LanguageLog to ask what they think.
- 15/04/2011 11:35:12 PM
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*NM*
Something like this?
- 17/04/2011 04:41:31 PM
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