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> - exit: out - go - prospect: forward - look - decide: down - cut - alarm: to the weapons I have no idea how to parse this.
by gaur 11y ago
> - exit: out - go - prospect: forward - look - decide: down - cut - alarm: to the weapons
I have no idea how to parse this.
- kafkaesq 11y agoMy guess: exit ~ ex-it = out + go prospect ~ pro-spect = forward + look decide ~ de-cide = down + cut alarm ~ a-(l)-arm = to the weapons I think what he's basically saying is that when English became a fusional language, forged by the collision of two alien languages -- one Germanic, one Latin; each with its own morphological building system -- everything just turned into a big jumble, and people forgot all these (once) nuanced rules for compounding / deriving words -- leaving us with the comparatively limited ruleset we have now. At least that's my basic interpretation of the coldly functional, atonal clusterfuck that is modern English.