Re: English syllable structure (was, for some reason: Re: Llirine: How to creat a language)
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 13:14 |
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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.
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