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Conlangery #51: Language History

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Is It a Morphological Category?

In English, weak verbs are regular. They don't have the muscles to fight and do their own thing. Strong verbs are irregular like sit and sat and you know, and that's not tied to the semantics of it right. So if your sound chain is taped, screw up the paradigm for to be, it's probably just going to end up being screwed up because people use that word all the time. It depends on how much of a party people your culture is. I had one quick question, well, not really question, but when we're talking about losing of the final sounds French, I know a lot of the other romance languages are pro drop. Is that an example of where

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