Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)
| From: | Cheng Zhong Su <suchengzhong@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 21:05 |
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--- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
wrote: > Quoting Frank George Valoczy
<valoczy@...>:
I think for a language, the more words the better. The
question is that how many words can you remember in
life time. If comparing with other language's user,
railwayman to railwayman, electrician to electrician,
always handle less words, it would be a question for
the language.
Su Cheng Zhong
>
> > If English has too many words, what about
> Hungarian? The average
> > speaker of Hungarian has upwards of 100,000 words
> in his general
> > vocabulary, not counting specialty jargon (say,
> linguistics, or
> > railwayman's, or electrician's etc...)...
>
> Isn't that because the average Hungarian cheats,
> though? Because
> it's so agglutinative, you're defining what a "word"
> is quite
> differently.
>
>
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