Re: [stack] Lojban (was: cabbages and kings)
John Cowan <[email protected]>
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William Tanksley scripsit: > I don't quite understand. Do you mean that Ogden defined idioms for BE > in an attempt to reduce the word-vocabulary? That is very interesting. No, he just licensed the use of any and all such idioms that already exist in Full English. So "put out" in BE may mean not only "place outside", but also "expel", "anger", or "copulate", just as in FE. > It sounds like a serious potential problem: the word-vocabulary is > small, but the idiom-vocabulary might be unmanageably large. Is that the > case? I can't tell from your post. Yes, that's what I meant. -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part http://ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that [email protected] cooks with butter. --David Chessler