07-08-2025, 08:58 PM
At last Sunday's conference Tavie gave a brilliant yet entertaining presentation on the strange statistics of gallows. Among other things, she spokes of the rare preference of two of the gallows in the first line of the paragraphs. There's no explanation for this behavior in a linguistic system. Nor is there one for benched gallows, when we also see benches on both sides of the gallows.
Tavie didn't mention another very significant phenomenon: gallows that extend their arms, those strange stranddle gallows. What does this mean in a linguistic system? It's hard to believe it indicates something ornamental when we see the gallow with one leg and two loops resting on a [c] and other oddities.
I don't know if the linguistic mirage will last another hundred years, but what I am sure of is that one day it will be abandoned.
Tavie didn't mention another very significant phenomenon: gallows that extend their arms, those strange stranddle gallows. What does this mean in a linguistic system? It's hard to believe it indicates something ornamental when we see the gallow with one leg and two loops resting on a [c] and other oddities.
I don't know if the linguistic mirage will last another hundred years, but what I am sure of is that one day it will be abandoned.