Subject: Re: [lojban] Amusing stuff

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:27:50 -0400

Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> [The] inherited lexicon [of English] can't be very
> different in size from that of Dutch or German.

Smaller, indeed, since many inherited words have perished and been replaced by
French or Latin or Greek ones.

> Remains then the fact
> that it has ingested large portions of the vocabularies of other lgs,
> such as French, that it has been in contact with. Which is not common,
> but not unique either.

And any language which has ingested English is larger than English,
a fortiori.

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