Re: Previous post, more examples..

Abrigon Gusiq sikyal:

> cow             = anizhazutuv (animal, herbivour, land, large,
> domesticated)
>
> But want to be able to describe what it is, but with smaller words..
> [snip]
There's a simple reason why no natlang does this: the words are too long
and too easily confused.  Similar things tend to have similar names, and
while this *seems* be a good thing, it actually causes problems.  If I
want to know the difference between carrotss and potatoes, the one-letter
or so difference between the words for them will only lead to confusion.

In real life, the more similar things are, the more important it often is
to be able to distinguish them. Schemes like this fail on that. They lack
redundancy.

At the same time, it's an interesting idea for a phillang.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/

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