Posted by Martin G. on July 15, 1999 at 12:28:46:
In Reply to: Re: "What a word's worth" - Part 3 posted by Martin G. on July 14, 1999 at 16:30:07:
Thanks, David & Nick-1, for your comments; David, I do appreciate your humour (and please pardon my mistaking a posting of yours a while ago as being serious, rather than a parody you intended - but I'll write more on that later).
As for human versions of the Dirdirs' "secrets"; compare the now-fashionable glottal stops and simplified syntax in London English (John Le Carré called it slut-English), used to mark off a particular social group.
I'll continue this saga soon, as soon as I recover from a comment left by Nick-2.
Terry, BTW; I'm really no fan of the S-W hyp., I just think Whorf especially got a bad press - but I'll write more on this soon.