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Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Thursday, December 13, 2001, 13:14
Quoting Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>:

> 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. ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers

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