Re: Size of your dictionary
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 3, 2009, 19:18 |
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:
>> Hello all-
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>> How many words does your conlang(s) have? I realize that this might be a
>> tricky question to answer depending on how you define "word."
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> gzb has (as of the last website update; I'm away from my
> machine, and there are a handful of words added since December
> that aren't on the website yet) 1263 root words, 1773 derived
> words, and 33 gzb'ized proper names and acronyms.
Also: recent experiments with my flashcard script suggest
that I know (or at least can recognize, whether I can recall
them or not) about 85-90% of the words in the lexicon.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/