Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: the word "won't" (No reason for the Ianucci/Ellis dispute) Message-ID: <945@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 02:23:29 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.945 Posted: Wed Aug 7 02:23:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 00:49:08 EDT References: <1235@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: U Chicago -- Linguistics Dept Lines: 12 From their views _as_stated_, michael is right, German didn't have much direct influence on English -- but that's just because we apply the name 'German' only to a point in the history after the branch leading to English was well split off. But, michael, look at what the guy is trying to say and instead of flaming him about the facts, just suggest a better way of putting it. Obviously what Dave has in mind is that English is after all a Germanic language, and it's reasonable to suspect that apparent cognates have the same origin in a common ancestor. -- -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar