Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages

On Jun 20, 2:48 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 19, 6:01 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



We've already seen from Franz's citation of Feynman on Japanese that
Feynman's "common sense" about language was as erroneous as anyone
else's.

What a big bore you are. You certainly didn't look up
the chapter I mentioned. Now that I returned home
I looked up the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
and the chapter on the Dirac equation. Feynman tells that
in Japanes one must use different verbs depending on
whether _my_ garden, _my_ work, etc. is meant, or if it is
_your_ garden, _your_ work, etc. You glance at my miserable
garden, I observe your marvellous garden. You can't say
glance in both cases. When Feynman solves a Dirac
equation he does a poor job, when someone else solves
the same equation he does a great job - again one must
use two different verbs, one can't use the verb solve in both
cases, although both are doing the very same, namely solving
a demanding equation. That was the point when Feynman gave
up on learning Japanese.

You don't realize that _every_ language has such word pairs???

Animals feed, people eat. (Tiere fressen, Leute essen.)

Recently I heard that Japanse is dramatically changing
with the young urban generation, and I guess that such
grammatical forms - the obligation to use different verbs
whether I do something or you do something - might be
disappearing.

Guessing is stupid when you can simply ask someone who knows.

Picture me and you assmebling digital
cameras for Sony. I can't pretend that my camera is
miserable and your camera is marvellous, because
we assemble the very same cameras, standardized
products that must be of equal quality, one like the other.
So technological progress, industrialized production,
makes language change. As I said: language mirrors life,
and in the case of humans the level of technology.

You do not have a single shred of evidence of that.

.

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