> --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:31:45AM -0800, Gary
>> Shannon wrote:
>> >
http://fiziwig.com/korpu001.txt
>>
>> Interesting - and not what I imagined when you
>> announced the project.
>> I don't think I like the explicit statement of rules
>> after the sentences
>> . . . it seems like it would be better to infer
>> things like "sa is the
>> accusative indefinite article" from the corpus
>> rather than having them
>> baldly stated in notes right next to the first
>> sentence of the first
>> reader.
>
> <snip>
>
> Yes, that would be more interesting for the reader,
> but I did it that way as reference for myself so I
> don't lose sight of where I am and what I'm doing. As
> time goes on some of those rules may prove to be wrong
> anyway, but for now it's handy to have something
> written down to refer back to while the language is
> still in its infancy, since this is the only existing
> documentation of the language.
>
> --gary
>