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Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)
• Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:46:03 EDT

In a message dated 4/29/2008 09:49:02 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Okrand discussing borrowing:
> 
> KGT 72:  It is possible that, at some time in the past, the numerals were 
> "borrowed" into the lexicon of music in order to sing the scale [...] It is 
> far more likely, however, that the borrowing went in the other direction" 
> (KGT 72)
> 
> KGT 205:  For example, one language may borrow (and, in the process, 
> phonetically modify) a word for a concept it lacks.
> 

Language borrowing is hardly borrowing per se.

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