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Re: [lojban] Amusing stuff
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Smaller, indeed, since many inherited words have perished and been replaced by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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