Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary


Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:44A92B68.2924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Richard Herring wrote:

In message <e85g3a$ev6$02$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mok-Kong Shen
<mok-kong.shen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

. Each Chinese ideograph is considered
as one word in my sense.

If you call them "characters" it's no harder to type, and you won't get
people popping up every other post to point out that the Chinese writing
system isn't ideographic.

"I have sworn eternal vigilance against the tyranny of ..."
--T. Jefferson
Peter T. Daniels

Is that what he said? :-)
I believe he used more flowery language:
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal vigilance
against any form of tyranny over the mind of man."

pjk


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