I'm not sure why this is posted here (ChinesePod linked to it recently as well). It seems to be nothing more than a very long thread of heated arguments from pe

I'm not sure why this is posted here (ChinesePod linked to it recently as well). It seems to be nothing more than a very long thread of heated arguments from people who are mostly undeterred by their profound ignorance of linguistics. If you're interested in this subject, there's a much better discussion here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1211 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1211