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- From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Correlation Lengths of Language Changes
- Message-ID: <Jan.27.22.25.25.1993.12612@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 03:25:26 GMT
- References: <Jan.8.21.14.52.1993.18293@pilot.njin.net> <C0pHKw.12z@spss.com> <Jan.12.02.44.16.1993.26312@pilot.njin.net> <1ivg91INNc92@pith.uoregon.edu> <Jan.13.19.46.38.1993.24240@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan18.231942.7570@leland.Stanford.EDU> <Jan.18.22.30.55.1993.1013
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- In article <1776@tdat.teradata.COM> swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen) writes:
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- > Stone age man spent more time sitting around the camp fire talking than anything
- > else. It turns out that hunter-gatherer economics requires *less* intensive
- > effort than anything since. A hunter had *far* more spare time than *we* do.
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- Yeah, and they toasted marshmellows, drank wine and discussed how
- they could improve their syntax and their lexicon. They discussed
- whether they should expand their lexicon by compounding or by vowel
- alternation vs postifixation of morphs.
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- > What has domestication to do with anything? A hunter-gatherer invaraibly has
- > a better natural vocabulary than a farmer or rancher.
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- I assume the trick here is in the meaning of 'natural'...
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