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Larry Trask Biography

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Larry Trask, an outstanding figure in an unknown field, was born on November 10, 1944, and passed away on March 27, 2004. His life and contributions remain largely unrecorded.

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“In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them.”

Want Giving Law Language Numbers Sky Century Skills Window Skins Fellows Ugly Kicks Britain Score Knives Skirts Large Numbers Vikings Pronouns Norse Scandinavia

Author:Larry Trask

“Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!”

Long Difficult Cities Company Example Television Long Time Locals Versions Variety Long Time Ago Programmes Divergent Newcastle Subtitles

Author:Larry Trask

“The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.”

Different Type Snow Alaska Likelihood English Speaking Skiers Greenland

Author:Larry Trask

“I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.”

Firsts Mets First Time Speakers Recalls Single Word

Author:Larry Trask

“The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).”

Way Language Elements Sentences Grammar

Author:Larry Trask

About the Author

Born: November 10, 1944
Died: March 27, 2004
Known for: Author
Quotes: 5

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