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Languages and Linguistics

geardaddy

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1. It's intesting to look at syntax of other languages I know

Reply to Lionel Mandrake (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2019, 05:36 PM

Aug 2019

and how much (or not) they've changed.

Chinese has changed dramatically from Classical Chinese to Modern Chinese. Welsh on the other hand has not changed as much. There is however, like Chinese, a dramatic difference between literary and spoken languages in both.

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the persistence of syntax [View all] Lionel Mandrake Aug 2019 OP

It's intesting to look at syntax of other languages I know geardaddy Aug 2019 #1

Hmmm ... Igel Aug 2019 #2

I'm a dinosaur. Lionel Mandrake Aug 2019 #3