Re: In defence of philosophical languages (was: RE: Comparison of philosophical
| From: | Bryan Maloney <slimehoo@yahoo.com> <slimehoo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 3:58 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@Q...> wrote:
> OTOH, I *do* have trouble remembering overly-regularized words like the
> anatomical terms, which, when I made them, I went a bit too far in
reusing
> common morphemes.
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> So there you have it. Completely arbitrary words aren't as difficult to
> learn as you might think, because uniqueness makes it harder to confuse
> with other words. (Also, in the examples I cited above, I do have a
I spend all day dealing with clones that are named "logically".
Everybody confuses them with each other. Is it pXhBmBluCat or
pXhBmBluGlu? Better look it up, especially since we have over twenty
of them named in this fashion and a mistake will cost $1,000.