--- In conlang@y..., Tim May <butsuri@B...> wrote:
> Christophe Grandsire writes:
> > En réponse à Peter Clark <peter-clark@B...>:
> >
> > > I am a citizen of:
> > > A. A country in Western Europe. (11
responses, 32%)
> > > B. A country in Central Europe. (1
response, 3%)
> > > C. A country in Eastern Europe. (1
response, 3%)
> > > D. A country in the Middle East. (1
response, 3%)
> > > E. A country in the Far East. (0
responses 0%)
> > > F. A country in North Africa. (0
responses, 0%)
> > > G. A country in Sub-Saharan African. (0
responses, 0%)
> > > H. A country in the Austronesian/South
Pacific region. (2
> > > responses, 6%)
> > > I. A country in South America. (2
responses, 6%)
> > > J. A country in Central America. (0
responses, 0%)
> > > K. A country in North America. (16
responses, 47%)
> > > L. Other. (Several responses, all
hammered in elsewhere. :)
> > >
> >
> > Quite interesting! The Northern Americans are in
majority, but it's only a
> > relative majority, and not that much more than
the Western Europeans. And the
> > Non-Northern-American Non-Western-European
minority is quite a strong minority
> > with 21%! So contrary to what this Ms. Gunn
claimed, and like I had already
> > said, the geographical representation of the list
has more to do with the
> > accessibility of Internet to people in different
places of the world rather
> > than a cultural restriction of conlanging.
> >
>
> Generally speaking, it's my understanding that the
word majority
> refers by default to an absolute majority only, so
if the NAmericans
> have only a relative majority, they don't have a
majority at all,
> they're just the largest individual minority.
Obviously this becomes
> more complex when one can form coalitions,
thankfully not something we
> have to worry about here.
>
> The New Oxford somehow fails to clarify this. Does
anyone have a
> conlang with an interesting way of covering this
ground? (I have no
> idea what LC-01 does, I'm still thinking about how
to say "X is bigger
> than Y".)
We're a plurality rather than a majority? :)
Stephen
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