Thread: Bilingual in Europe versus USA
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Old September 8th, 2006, 01:32 AM posted to rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.usa-canada
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Giovanni Drogo wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, wrote:

Basically I have read that there is evidence that "sedation"
(building of permanent settlements and the infrastructure that goes
along with it)

Do you really use the word "sedation" in this context to indicate the
action of settling down ?
[snip]

Okay, now I've got access to the reference. But I don't think
anyone
is gonna like the correct word either.

The word used was "sedentism". The reference is "Ideas" by Peter
Watson.