Re: How to minimize "words" (was "Re: isolating conlangs")
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 23, 2007, 12:56 |
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In a message dated 2/22/2007 11:42:03 PM Central Standard Time,
jeff.rollin@GMAIL.COM writes:
> I read somewhere that the notion of "word" only applies to literate
> societies that attempt to segment written communication into definable
> chunks,
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On the other hand, "WORD" is one of the 60 or so words in NSM, Anna
Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage, which is postulated to contain only words
which are found in all languages, and which can't be defined more simply in
terms of other words.
stevo
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