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Re: A Bit of a Flame

From:Rene Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...>
Date:Monday, November 15, 2004, 19:37
Trent Pehrson wrote:

 > For every category you
 > create, though, examples can be found that break you models.

Oh, you omitted an 'r' there: "your models".

 > I guarantee
 > that if one of Chomsky?s finite state machines started
 > generating ?grammatically correct? sentences today that humans
 > then would?t recognize them as such.

There is an 'n' in "wouldn't". Furthermore, I doubt that your
double use of "that" is grammatical.

 > If people want to use linguistics jargan in a new

Oops, another typo there. It's "jargon".

 > Yes, Iknow.

Now, that *would* be correct if it had been Calénnawn, since
Calénnawn affixes the personal pronoun 'I' to the verb.

 > a friendly word to you conlangers who are not afraid to create?
 > whether you are university-trained linguists or nor not.

You should have left out the "nor", I'm afraid.

It's a bit of a pity your post contains so many errors.

René

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Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>