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Dictionaries of agglutinating languages

From:Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
Date:Monday, October 2, 2000, 5:31
Robert Hailman wrote:

> I haven't seen any dictionaries of any languages of a similar nature to > yours, but my idea is to only put in words the meaning of which can't be > derived easily by the root & the affixes; or perhaps you could only > include the words using uncommon affixes.
Well, quite. The problem is in defining 'derived easily' and 'common'. These qualities /can't/ be defined except as one end of a very fuzzy and subjective continuum -- but to compile a dictionary I have to be definitive. -- web. | Here and there I like to preserve a few islands of sanity netyp.com/ | within the vast sea of absurdity which is my mind. member/ | After all, you can't survive as an eight foot tall dragon | flesh eating dragon if you've got no concept of reality.