And if you think about it, things like boatspeech imply a certain amount of specialized vocabulary as well as just mish-mashing of tongues.
On 31 Mar 2005 at 20:47, donald_at_... wrote:
> Just about anywhere there is job or activity specialisation. Next
> time you're bored have a look for the names of all the different
> bits of horse furniture. A shorter exercise would be all the
> different names for cattle. Often treated as synonyms today they
> do in fact have separate precise meanings. I bet the Heortlings
> of Sartar use every one of them while the citizens of Karse
> wonder why a single animal needs so many names.
>
> --
> Donald Oddy
> http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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