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Grammar Traces Language Roots

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ancestral-tongues dept.

mlewan writes "Researchers use grammar to trace relations between Papuan languages. What is interesting is not that much that they use grammar features to do this, but that they seem to have given up using vocabulary as a help."

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  1. Re:If they want a real challenge... by badmicrophone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    possible interpretations:

    A) It is interesting that grammar features this, but not that much as they use a help to have given up using vocabulary.

    B) Instead of using vocabulary, they use grammar. This is interesting not that much.

    C) They gave up on vocabulary as help, and it is interesting that much not that they use grammar features to do this but that they seem to.

    D) They use grammar to do this, what is interesting is not that much that features do this, but that they seem to have given up a help as using vocabulary.

    ok, that's enough for now :)

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  2. Re:Makes sense. by ciroknight · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'd rather be lazy than an asshat who runs around correcting people on the internet. but that's okay with me, because I admitted already that I was probably incorrect, but from what I already said, I wasn't interested in Canada. Fuck you Canooks.

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  3. Re:Makes sense. by brian0918 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "A little Canuck assistance to test 'what you heard'."

    And there you have it folks, the largest foreign relations incident in the history of Canada.