23 May
2013
23 May
'13
11:46 p.m.
On 23 May 2013 22:27, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
It used to have 900 core words in about 1884 when it was first published,
but that was a very long time ago and within a decade, the 2nd edition was
substantially bigger.
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Sent from my phone - please pardon brevity & typos.
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.