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On 26/04/16 22:17, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
High alpine dairying may have begun over 3000 years ago
eurekalert.org
April 22, 2016
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/p-had042216.php
Excerpt:
". . . 'dairying' is found as early as 1649, but the rare
verb 'dairy' not until 1780 . . ."
A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles
"Verbing weirds language."
-- Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
Then last week on "Fear the Walking Dead" one of the characters
used the word "Jonestowning" to describe a man's plot to commit
family suicide.
"The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities. The first
of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different
parts of speech. Any word in the language (in principle this applied
even to very abstract words such as if or when) could be used either
as verb, noun, adjective, or adverb. Between the verb and the noun
form, when they were of the same root, there was never any variation,
this rule of itself involving the destruction of many archaic forms.
The word 'thought,' for example, did not exist in Newspeak. Its place
was taken by 'think,' which did duty for both noun and verb."
-- George Orwell, "1984" (Appendix: The principles of Newspeak)
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