Thoughts you get when you're slightly drunk

[oloriel]

So if it's Pentecoste* because the Holy Ghost came among the disciples of Christ, and they were able to suddenly speak and understand all sorts of languages --- does that mean Holy Ghost = Universal Grammar?

Ok, perhaps this post should be titled "Thoughts linguists get when they're slightly drunk".

*hides*

*Yes, I know that the correct English spelling would be Pentecost, but the Greek is Pentekoste, so I can damn well stick an "e" to the word if I feel like it.

Comments

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm..... isn't universal grammar what all languages or rather all intuitive language understanding started out from? And it develops/ed over time, so that in the end you will no longer be able to understand a great number of different language systems?
In so far, I think that's rather more like Babylon. XD
I don't think you'd be able to understand all sorts of languages just because you've been blessed with universal grammar. :P Because the *languages* evolved to something very different by now.

*scratchhead*

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

But Universal Grammar is still what (theoretically) enables you to learn any language as a native language, right when you're setting out to, you know, learn being human. It's just the set paramaters that - in the end - limits you to one particular system.
Ok ok, so perhaps it's like a UG reset? ;)

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

That sounds more plausible, yes. ^-^

[vout.livejournal.com]

Siehst du, das ist genau so ein Post, von dem ich beim Meme unter Punkt 3 geredet habe. *GGG*

[arwensommer.livejournal.com]

There -are- worse things one could get in terms of thoughts when slightly inebriated... ;)

And you could always call it "Whit", if you wanted to avoid the E :)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]