Re: Dichotomies, trichotomies, polychotomies
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 24, 2002, 19:30 |
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On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:57:37PM +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> H. S. Teoh
> > Quick terminological question here:
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> > I'm working on correlatives in my conlang ATM, and so far there are
> > dichotomies and trichotomies. I'm thinking about having a 5-prong 'chotomy
> > as well. What would the right term be? Pentachotomy? Pentchotomy?
> > Quintichotomy? None of them sound "right".
>
> dichotomy, tritomy, tetratomy/tesseratomy, pentatomy -- stress is
> penTAtomy.
[snip]
Hmm, is it tritomy or trichotomy?
But anyway, pentatomy (penTAtomy :-)) sounds cool to me. I think I'll
adopt that.
T
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