Re: USAGE: WOMYN (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum number of symbols,though mostly talking about french now
From: | Cheng Zhong Su <suchengzhong@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 27, 2002, 15:51 |
--- And Rosta <a-rosta@...> wrote: > I don't
rightly see how you would tell a purely
> phonological story
> about this, but I take your general point about
> boundary drawing
> and buck passing. I also don't think that the
> 'correct' analysis
> of morphological irregulars is really a settlable
> question, though
> I think that we can legitimately ask, as Ray said,
> how the
> person in the street perceives things.
>
> --And.
I think the target of an international language is not
merely a language that every body know it. It should
be a language, with simplest symbols and usages. So
the regularity of plural is one of the steps. We can't
knowing a language without learning but we can
minimize the quantity of learning.
Su Cheng Zhong
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