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Re: USAGE: Language revival

From:Ed Heil <edheil@...>
Date:Thursday, November 25, 1999, 0:39
John Cowan wrote:

> Don Blaheta wrote: > > > That's not true at all. Once learned, we can remember these irregular > > forms, but we still have to learn them in the first place. > > Exactly so. I was rejecting Ed's claim that we'd rather memorize > than compute in all cases. Per contra, we memorize a modest number > of irregular forms, but we compute the regular ones, just as you say.
I reject your rejection of my claim. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------