Re: weekly vocab

Douglas Koller, Latin & French sikayal:

> >   I could also, with a little work, come up with a short sentence or two
> >that used all the presented words. Or a sentence per word. As the task is
> >completely voluntary, people could ignore it as they see fit, but it could
> >help provide context when creating the words.
> >
> >   Any preferences, anyone?
I, for one, absolutely do NOT want to have sample sentences to translate.
The effort involved in making a sentence is so much greater than that of
simply inventing some words, that I would give up much more often, and
wouldn't benefit at all.  Furthermore, I think the challenge of coming up
with culturally neutral sentences would be even worse than coming up with
neutral vocab.

Please please PLEASE don't go to sentences!


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are
perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in
frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
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