Re: New Polysynthetic (?) Language
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 2, 2007, 9:08 |
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Joseph wrote:
<<
Hang on - it looks like I didn't explicitly set the encoding to
Unicode. That's changed now. It looks the same to me, but your
mileage may vary. Now, if that fixes it for you, what I won't
understand is why the source code didn't look right for you before.
>>
That fixed it! Totally and completely! Wow. I guess that's
something to keep in mind in the future...
Joseph:
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While it might not be the easiest thing to define, I think a morpheme
does have a real existence, and so a means of categorizing languages
based on their morphemes in some way is reasonable.
>>
Hmm... I rather think the morpheme is easy to define, and that
it doesn't have a real existence in language. "Word" is definitely
hard to define, but it does seem to mean something to all of us
language users.
-David
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