Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 4:47 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Still the past tense, unless you have started to say "wended".
Is it? I've never used the word "wend" in my life, nor heard it said,
so I wouldn't know.
> Sometimes new ones get created: [slEp] and [wEp] are very common,
> though not standard, and we also have "dove", "shat", and (according
> to And) "twug" = "realized, comprehended".
True, but that kind of change is rare. What are /slEp/ and /wEp/ past
tenses of? "sleep" and "weep"? There's also "thunk" as the past-tense
of "think".
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