--- 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.
<snip>
>
> 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.
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There is no need for the tie breaker. Look up "ken"
in a good English dictionary.
--gary