23 May
2013
23 May
'13
1:19 p.m.
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
I doubt that anybody knows the entire vocabulary of
any living human
language.
Should we define Esperanto as a "living human language"?
I think that it has a finite vocabulary (900 words?),
although provision to embed alien words. (when nothing will quite
substitute for "Klaatu barada nikto")
Just as any given programming language might not be "complete", but that
is not intolerable if there is provision to call subroutines written in
something else.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com