Re: "A Million Words and Counting" - New Book
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 19, 2008, 21:55 |
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Elliott Lash <erelion12@...> wrote:
> "A Million Words and Counting"
>
> There is a google books version. Interestingly and somewhat annoyingly, my
> language Silindion, is listed as one of the languages 'heavily influenced by'
> or 'based upon' Latin. While I have said on some websites in the
Besides that I count three errors or egregious
oversimplifications in the three paragraphs about
Toki Pona, Esperanto and Ido.
> Have any of you heard of this book or the author? I guess there's nothing one can
> do now that it's been published. I am annoyed that I wasn't contacted about
> it
I think Language Log had a post or two last year
criticizing this guy's sloppy research etc., specifically
re: the claim that English recently surpassed
a million words.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/
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