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Re: Idle challenge: Babel Text with fewest roots

From:Michael-Forest Meservy <jadeknight@...>
Date:Monday, September 27, 2004, 4:46
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:04:45 -0400, Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
wrote:


>I was just reading about Adam Walker's q~'u^pl! language --
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4745/gram.html -- and was surprised that
it only had 28 words in its dictionary yet had a Babel Text.

>
>Can anyone write a legitimate Babel Text using fewer than 28 roots?


When I originally tackled the Babel Text in Elsärïn, I came close to that
few.  But it's got me beat.  (I count 32 by the 5th verse)