Re: Lexicon counting (was: Weekly Vocab #1.1.1...)
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 4, 2006, 22:53 |
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Hi!
Feaelin Moilar writes:
> > This has boosted the lexicon to 267 entries.
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> I've occasionally wondered and only now been motivated to ask, when one
> counts the entries, what do you count? I'm presuming only one form of the
> word (in the situation of conjugation, declensions, and the like) and
> myself I would exclude an whole group of entries in my data that are
> "famous names".
I suppose everyone counts differently, so comparison is futile, but
it's fun anyway. :-)
When I enter a word, I count it even if it's a name, since I'm so happy
the lexicon grows and it would be frustrating to not count it...
I never had a name-prominent lexicon, however, so I think it was never
very important to distinguish.
BTW, of course I do not count the inflected forms in the lexicon,
althought they are quite irregular in Þrjótrunn, and they would
probably multiply the number of entries by an easy ten or so. It is
always frustrating to enter a verb because of this -- verbs have just
so many inflected forms!
**Henrik
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