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

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:28:02PM +0000, Dan Jones wrote:
> Why the hell would we want to link linguistics and maths? The two are
> totally seperate (unless you're Pythagoras (IIRC) who thought *everything*
> was just maths in some form). It's like trying to link portrait painting to
> maths- overly difficult and ultimately pointless.
Linguistics as a science needs mathematics to process information.
Computational linguistics is a very useful branch of linguistics that's
completely math dependent. On the other hand, linguistics is like
biology, not like physics; a lot will come down to observation and
things being the way they are because they are, not coming down to one
grand set of formulas.

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