Sujet : Re: Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)
De : naddy (at) *nospam* mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 29. Mar 2024, 15:49:06
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On 2024-03-29, Ross Clark <
benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
"In the old days, when English was a new language, writers could invent
new words and use them. Nowadays it is easy enough to invent new
words...but we cannot use them because the language is old. You cannot
use a brand new word in an old language because of the very obvious yet
mysterious fact that a word is not a single and separate entity, but
part of other words. It is not a word indeed until it is part of a
sentence."
>
Can anyone make sense of this for me?
Who are the "we" and the "you" in that passage?
The "we" refers to today's writers, the "you" is impersonal (German
"man").
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)
Re: Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)