Absurdities Accepted by many Linguists
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1. That basic words are hard to borrow and therefore offer a key to the main source of a new language--or a key to the degree of relatedness among two languages. The merest observation of English in the places where it is spoken shows that the words borrowed from indigenous languages are basic words--and names.
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