Re: Too long words
| From: | Carsten Becker <post@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 19, 2004, 20:00 |
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:15:03 -0700, Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
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>To be specific, "isolating" refers to having few morphemes per word, and
>"polysynthetic" to having many morphemes per word; "agglutinating" refers
>to having few *semantemes per morpheme, and "fusional" to having many
>*semantemes per morpheme.
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>So possibly "My friend is a child, perhaps even a teenager, and somewhat
>antisocial."
Argh! Of course, isolating is like what Chinese is. In your words: "having
few morphemes per word". Sorry!