In <bvgggd$58i$1@news.onet.pl>, "Piorokrat" <piorokrat@autograf.pl>
wrote:
>news:jscm10pu2duigifina6tb8bcbe49svg5gv@4ax.com...
>> In <b9b3de8.0401272315.401c2941@posting.google.com>,
>> branchofjesse@hotmail.com (Jerzy Jakubowski) wrote:
>>
>> >Seriously though, in that case, we accountants would look at the event
>> >that gave rise to the putative debt and see where the transfer of
>> >value was. In this question we see the transfer of value, not economic
>> >value, but lexical value, since we see the abundance of tongues in the
>> >world.
>>
>> Lexical value? What units, please?
>
>Kilodaveys.
>
>Since I thought of it, I get to name the unit.
>
>One 'davey' is a word or set phrase having the power of a lexical unit, and
>all the grammar that attaches uniquely to that word (ie. its
>irregulartities).
>
>A kilodavey is a thousand of them.
Interesting. How about an example of this purported "transfer of
lexical value"? How does it take into account pidgins and creoles?
What does it say about the alteration of Anglo-Saxon into Middle
English? About the other traceable language changes that we know
about just in Western Europe?
>> >We know they must have come from somewhere. What went in to
>> >give rise to them? Ah, there is a Babel account, which refers to
>> >something that exists that cannot be otherwise explained.
>>
>> You must have a really special meaning for those last four words,
>> since on the face of it they make no sense. Care to share it with us?
>cannot = is not able to
>be = verb of status, introduces passive voice.
>otherwise = in another manner to one already stated
>explained = accounted for.
Oh, you mean "because Uncle Davey won't accept any other explanation".
Sorry, I should have understood that immediately.
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