dwise1 writes:And ironically, in language the words and constructs most used are also the ones subject to the most change.
I'm not sure that I agree with this.
dwise1 writes:The problem for the student is that those irregular verbs are also the most commonly used verbs, so the student must not only learn all of them, but he also must learn them very early in his study of that language.
Perhaps
Jon can step in and comment. My assumption is that new additions to a language tend to be somewhat ad hoc. However, over time, they become regularized. But the most frequently used parts of language never regularize because they are too heavily used for the regularizing changes to persist.
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