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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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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