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Re: My new project - comments appreciated

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 19:12
--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Interested by the more wide-ranging > language-unification projects I've > seen, I've decided to make one. It sounds like fun.
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> > Let's take an evidently different from English > example. We have 'to > know' as one verb. Dutch has two('weten' and > 'kennen'). How do we > resolve this dilemma? Simple, we take the opinions > of the minority > languages (Frisian and Scots). Scots has 'wat' and > 'ken' - a vote for > the Dutch system, as does Frisian - 'kenne' and > 'witte'. So, we know > that the two verb system is the majority opinion. > We also know that it > would have 'ken' as the root.
<snip> There is no need for the tie breaker. Look up "ken" in a good English dictionary. --gary

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