Re: Most developed conlang

On 4/25/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On 4/25/07, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> > In at least some cases the -al word used to exist but has become
> > archaic (it was a synonym of the -ic word anyway): e.g.,
> > poetical, piratical....
>
> I've personally encountered "piratical" and "egotistical" far more
> often than *piratic or *egotistic.
So these two words consitute different examples of what Alex was
asking about. You have pirate and piratical, but no *piratic. I should
say that I didn't weed out the list I posted earlier--I just generated
it using a little perl script applied to the larger list from the
English Lexicon Project (63,017 words in the copy on my hard drive).
But I think the point remains; there are bunches of words that have an
Xic form, an Xically form, but no *Xical form.

> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Dirk