Comments on: Oldest English Words http://www.k-international.com/blog/oldest-english-words/ Searching the World for exclusive language stories everyday Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: roshi http://www.k-international.com/blog/oldest-english-words/#comment-69 roshi Sun, 23 May 2010 20:51:49 +0000 http://www.bloglingua.com/?p=456#comment-69 this is niche one this is niche one

]]> By: ralph ferrara http://www.k-international.com/blog/oldest-english-words/#comment-68 ralph ferrara Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:46:41 +0000 http://www.bloglingua.com/?p=456#comment-68 I attended a seminar recently conducted by someone with a master in linguistics. She speculates that the verb 'do' will become obsolete - there are only a handful of languages that utilize an auxilliary verb such as 'to do' (icelandic, the celtic languages and possibly a semitic language). moreover, 'any' as well is predicted to be lost and in place of 'do' and 'any' in the flwg sentence, inflection will be used to ask the same question: You have money? Words that remain in a language without change are normally pronouns, numbers and body parts which is in line with your opening sentence (I, we, three). Question: i recently saw at an etymology site that has quizzes stating that 'mind your Ps and Qs refers to teachers instructing their students not to forget the usuage of the 2 letters, as opposed to another theory about bartenders using that for pints and quarts of beer. which is correct? Thank you Rferrara I attended a seminar recently conducted by someone with a master in linguistics.
She speculates that the verb ‘do’ will become obsolete – there are only a handful of languages that utilize an auxilliary verb such as ‘to do’ (icelandic, the celtic languages and possibly a semitic language).
moreover, ‘any’ as well is predicted to be lost and in place of ‘do’ and ‘any’ in the flwg sentence, inflection will be used to ask the same question: You have money?

Words that remain in a language without change are normally pronouns, numbers and body parts which is in line with your opening sentence (I, we, three).

Question: i recently saw at an etymology site that has quizzes stating that ‘mind your Ps and Qs refers to teachers instructing their students not to forget the usuage of the 2 letters, as opposed to another theory about bartenders using that for pints and quarts of beer.
which is correct?

Thank you
Rferrara

]]> By: ralph ferrara http://www.k-international.com/blog/oldest-english-words/#comment-67 ralph ferrara Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:49:44 +0000 http://www.bloglingua.com/?p=456#comment-67 am happy to find this site. any lists on words we expect to lose - and why - over the next 20, 50 and 100 years? thank you! am happy to find this site. any lists on words we expect to lose – and why – over the next 20, 50 and 100 years?

thank you!

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