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Re: USAGE: WOMYN (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum numberofsymbols,though mostly talking about french now

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, May 27, 2002, 20:03
And Rosta wrote:
> If I read you correctly, you're reiterating my points here.
Then perhaps I misread you. I was under the impression that you were analyzing woman as a prefix wo- added to the noun man, whereas I'm saying that, if it's to be analyzed as a compound at all, it would be a word wo with the *suffix* -man, because it acts more like that suffix than the independent noun _man_, namely, pronounced /m@n/ as opposed to /m&n/. At any rate, I personally suspect there's no one true analysis. A word like that may very well be considered as a compound by some speakers and as a single morpheme by others. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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