Elizabethan English
Old English
Sapir-Whorf
John Brokaw
afeared, to learn (to teach)
holp - past tense of hope
hap - to cover
neb - to pry/nose into others affairs
Polysynthetic
agglutinative dialects
lekemes
Qen herk hepshef
coemeterion - cemetery
spel - a tale, a story
gospel - good news
fish could be spelled like "ghoti" (enough, women, nation)
misspelt - Briton
tietokone - "knowledge machine" (finnish computer)
2 easier to draw forms of hieroglyphics: heratic demotic
writing systems set down lanfuage rather tahn ideas directly; they have evolved to accomodate needs of the language - not the thinkgs we want to speak about.
-gram - something that is written
logogram - something written to convey meaning
pictograms - written representations of a thing or an idea
ideagram - written representation of an idea
