Dear Ken,
I agree. And the turtle possibly agrees. My Sunday was troubled by the widdershins aspects of the noun/ verb basis of English. If we go this way, it seems English is verb-based; if we go the other way, English seems to be noun-based.
Cheers
Keith
> On 21 Sep 2014, at 5:10 pm, "Ken Friedman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> You write, “Word frequency and usage patterns indicate something but what?”
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> Please don’t make more of this than I intended.
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> I was not making general claims about word frequency or drawing inferences. I was specifically and only responding to Terry’s claim that “It demonstrates how the *design* (noun) referring to the drawings for manufacture is characteristically and historically more common, and hence more important, than the verb form (designing) or the occupation ‘designer’ which seem absent from any discussions at the time.”
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