[lojban] Re: OT: Harvard scientists predict the future of the past tense

[Colin Wright <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

>> Many of you might be interested in this, found on Slashdot.
>> Mathematical analysis of English texts over the past several hundred
>> years yielded a predictive model of verb regularization.
>
> Who'da thunk it?

Indeed.  I'm having considerable success in convincing people to use a regular 
past tense of "u".  Past tense of "think" is "thunk", of "click" is "cluck" 
and of "print" is "prunt".  I've now heard second generation usage ...

On a more serious note, the interest in the original is the accuracy of the 
quantitative predictions.


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