Hi!
Jim Henry writes:
> On 4/26/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > This seems an easy case then: just use the one that reflects the
> > meaning of the new word best.
>
> I think I like Alex Fink's analysis better in this case -- we have
> two homophonous words that might need separate lexicon entries
> (at least the less transparent one, "((malmangx)em)a" deserves
> a lexicon entry, and the more transparent one needs another
> entry to note its homophonousness or polysemy with the other),
> even though they're composed of all the same morphemes
> in the same order.
This sounds like they mean different things but happen to be
homophonous? In that case, of course you'd want two entries.
I'd not want to unify those into one entry.
> > The longer one thinks about this, the easier it becomes to do
> > something less abysmal... :-)
>
> ?
It's just that many details pop up when you think about this topic
thoroughly.
**Henrik