Re: USAGE: -ic(al) Re: [CONLANG] Most developed conlang
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 29, 2007, 16:53 |
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* MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM said on 2007-04-29 01:07:02 +0200
> * conlang@MELROCH.SE writes:
> > Interestingly my dictionary points out that the adverb to
> > _politic_ is _politicly_, so obviously the rule that
> > adjectives in _-ic_ insert _-al-_ before _-ly-_ may be
> > overridden in such a case, which begs the question why it
> > should be continued at all!
> >
>
> Actually the word is spelled "politically". Your dictionary
> must be wrong.
Dictionaries of English can't be wrong, as it is only the
dictionaries themselves that define how English is spelled.
There is, after all, no academy or group-on-high who gets to
decide just what is correct English, only thousands of
dictionary-makers with different motives, accents, dialects,
continents, traditions and what have you.
Oh, and there are more people using English as an L2 now than
there are "natives". I wonder how that will pan out...
t.
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