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2004:07:11

986 - Sassing Saussure

If one lived 200 years their language would not change? I dig that. Totally Boss idea. It's veritable dot-commage.

Seriously, by the age of ten I recognized idiom shift...even if I lacked the formal vocabulary to call it such. And how does langauge evolve except through accretions of this kind of thing, the novel usage or construction becoming less novel with each repeated success by some speaker satisfied with the results garnered thereby?

All of which is more or less aproppos of the thought experiment attributed to Saussure in page 17.

Of course the text emphasizes Saussure's use of the word "isolated," in reference to above mentioned 200 year old. I missed that part. Probably end up scrapping this whole note.

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