As an American speaker (Being from Texas a different dialect seems to be
spoken there too! ;) .. I agree, English in its various forms is not a 'pure
language' but a hodge-podge (another colloquialism? meaning mixture in this
case) of many languages. It also keeps changing with the social needs of
its users. Latin roots to many words are modified from use, and use in
other languages (Spanish based, French/Itialian - romantic language based,
Germanic based, and in more recent years even Asian, African, and other
areas too.)
From what I have seen any language that is so rigid it cannot change with
its users is doomed, and a 'new' language will prevail. Now users in
different area have different needs, so dialects happen (In the US, New
England and Boston are different, there are different dialects within New
York even in the NYCity buroughs. In Texas there are the cities (more
homogonous with the 5o'clock new anchors), rural, and even border areas with
Mexico (larger hispanic population). There is also a significant Vietnamese
(mostly coastal), German(central/hill country area), and other smaller
ethnic groups that have significantly modified the dialects in their areas.
It is considered a newsworthy event as new words are added to the Cambridge
Dictionary. I wonder how many are dropped we don't know about?
One of my favorite authors, Ben Franklin, has an autobiography that is
difficult to read with only about 200+ years difference in the language
changes. Many 'classic' authors are not easy to read by contemporary
readers because of normal rate of language changes.
Oh well, enough of this diatribe for today. ... Life happens, we go on. .
><> ... Jack
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Dylan Smith <dyls@...> wrote:
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> El 17 Oct 2009, a las 15:02, Bip's escribió:
> > to solder copper pipes with lead for indoor plumbing (side note:
> > plumbing derive from french "plomb" for lead (Pb in chemistry)),
> > hence the more modern butane heated soldering irons.
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> I thought "plumber" came from the Latin derivation. Then again, the
> Latin in the French word "plomb" can easily be seen. Of course,
> English is so irregular because it freely pirates words from any
> other language with wild abandon, and no one cares - English seems to
> liberally want to incorporate words from every country remotely
> nearby :-)
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