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

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']

In a message dated 2004-07-24 9:27:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> > 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;
> 
*sigh* The point was not to compare it to English, but to compare it to a 
living language.  Klingon is much more like Ancient Egyptian than French, except 
that we have *lots* more native text in Ancient Egyptian than we do in 
Klingon.  

lay'tel SIvten

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