From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:38:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160709163813.GC1076@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
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Steffen Nurpmeso scripsit:
> "Die Segel streichen" (Taking in the sails),
"Striking the sails" in technical English. All the nations around the
North and Baltic Seas exchanged their vocabularies like diseases, and if
we didn't have records of their earlier histories, we would know they
were related but we'd never figure out exactly how. For example, it
can be shown that French bateau, German Boot, common Scandinavian båt,
Irish bád, Scottish Gaelic bàta, Scots boat, and the equivalents in
the various Frisian languages are none of them original native words:
they all were borrowed from English boat.
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then, I contradict myself.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-09 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-02 0:12 [TUHS] MS-DOS Norman Wilson
2016-07-02 1:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 4:52 ` Random832
2016-07-03 19:40 ` scj
2016-07-07 5:02 ` [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-07 13:43 ` Nemo
2016-07-07 14:11 ` John Cowan
2016-07-07 14:18 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-07 23:47 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 5:40 ` scj
2016-07-08 7:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 11:09 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 0:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-09 14:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 16:38 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-11 11:20 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 11:54 ` Nemo
2016-07-11 13:15 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-08 11:25 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 13:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 14:06 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-08 14:52 Clem Cole
2016-07-08 14:59 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 15:47 ` Nemo
2016-07-08 16:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 20:29 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 16:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 18:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Random832
2016-07-08 20:49 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 21:09 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-08 21:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 21:45 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03 ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-08 17:36 Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 1:41 Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 1:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-10 1:52 ` John Cowan
2016-07-12 17:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-12 18:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-13 9:24 ` Wesley Parish
2016-07-13 10:09 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-10 21:10 ` Sven Mascheck
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