Re: USAGE: WOMYN (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum number of symbols,though mostly talking about french now
From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
Date: | Monday, May 27, 2002, 19:32 |
Cheng Zhong Su wrote:
> --- 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
Can anybody enlighten me as to what CZS's reply has to do with And's
paragraph above?
Andreas
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