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Re: tera'Daq yIn'a' 'ej pIv'a' tlhIngan Hol?

...Paul ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> True of English:
> This is how you can tell the English language is alive and well on Planet
> Earth: We're creating new words.  A lot of them. So many that the venerable OED
> (Oxford English Dictionary) has added almost 2,000 new words and phrases to its
> pages for this newest edition.
> True of Klingon?

I read/heard recently, in terms of total size of the lexicon, English is
#1 with about 1.5 MILLION words.  Second place?  Around 150,000 words (I
think it was French).  Klingon is not much different than French, really;
I refer you to the various articles about how the French government has
been trying to crack down on the phrases "e-mail" (officially, it's
"courrier electronique") and "walkman" ("baladeur"):

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-1027357.html

English has always been a much more "embrace & extend" kind of thing.
Particularly once Microsoft published the 'Encarta World English
Dictionary' (copyrighted by Microsoft, naturally) back in '99:

http://www.microsoft.com/nz/presscentre/articles/1999/jun23-06-lexicon.aspx

...Paul

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