Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Q&A about words Use of the word 'Imminent'
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
By negative do you mean pejorative?
a staunch defender of language
I have a book called Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. Latin (and Ancient) Greek are no longer spoken languages, except if you count the all Romance languages and Modern Greek. Is French merely a degraded Latin? Everything that happened to Latin as it become French is something the guardians decry. The change in pronunciation, the semantic drift of large parts of the vocabulary, the decline of declensions, and the transmogrification of of conjugations. O, the enormity of it all? Is French less efficient than Latin or more? Which language is better? About the only thing linguists can agree upon is that language changes. It is as inevitable as the tide lapping around King Canute's feet, no matter his fiats or diktats. My follow-on question is Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Use of the word 'Imminent' sshankar 04/23/10 03:41 AM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' BranShea 04/23/10 05:12 AM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' LukeJavan8 04/23/10 03:20 PM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' Jackie 04/24/10 01:48 AM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' LukeJavan8 04/24/10 03:24 PM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' Tromboniator 05/11/10 07:23 AM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' Faldage 05/11/10 10:50 AM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' LukeJavan8 05/11/10 03:36 PM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' Tromboniator 05/12/10 05:27 AM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' Faldage 05/12/10 11:20 AM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' zmjezhd 05/12/10 01:34 PM Re: Use of the word 'Imminent' wsieber 05/18/10 07:00 PM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,383Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 234 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 25
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,570tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,919Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org