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From: "Sean Hower" <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:00 PM
Subject: Of Terms and 'Tudes
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> Welcome to historical linguistics 101, dichronic analysis of
language change in progress. Methinks my historical linguistics
professor would be happy to know I can still fling around those
terms and know what they mean. :-) Methinks the recent trend of
using the morpheme "methinks" indicates a generalized shift
towards cutsy-stuffy lexical expansionism. It's well documented in
all the journals...............well, maybe not. But seriously, the
whole methinks thing is a perfect example of how words spread
through a language and how vocabularies can shift not only from
generation to generation, but within one's own lifetime. :-) Who
knows, maybe methinks will become a permanent part of this group's
lexicon. The usage could bleed out into the tech writing field in
general. Before you know it, we could be flinging around middle
english in our documents!!!
This reminds me somewhat of my own
Jensen Babytalk Theory
which says some words become simplified and changed because adults
pick up and reuse the versions of words that their babies create
in the attempt to say a difficult word.
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