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Re: [tlug] (OT) The enigma of Japan



Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 I lived with a linguist for a couple
of years, and the first thing she did was to break me of usages like
"primitive language" (although in secret I still say that about Perl).

Hang on, primitive means "resembling the original". Admittedly it has an alternate meaning (nuance?) of having lesser functionality but I can't see how a linguist can object to a language being being called primitive.

Brett


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