Re: Dublex (was: Washing-machine words (was: Futurese, Chinese,
| From: | And Rosta <a-rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 23:42 |
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Ray:
> At 6:08 am +0100 15/5/02, And Rosta wrote:
> [snip]
> >(unambigously analysable) compounds. I don't see much advantage in
> >a *regularized* rafsioid scheme of the sort you describe. Overall, I
> >think compounding is very overrated.
>
> I'm coming to that conclusion also.
As you probably know, Rick Morneau's Katanda comes up with some clever
compromises between the cumbersomeness of compounds and the desirability
of having stems whose meaning can be inferred, or at least guessed, from
their phonological form.
--And.
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