Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary

"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter> Joachim Pense wrote:
>> Am Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:52:31 GMT schrieb Peter T. Daniels:
>>
>> > Why is it more economical to have "go in" but not "enter,"
>> "go out" but > not "leave"?
>>
>> I don't understand why it would _not_ be more economical.

Peter> "Go in" is a lexical entry, "enter" is a lexical
Peter> entry. What have you saved?

The shared part: "go" :)

So, in German, once I've learnt "Eingang", (thus "-gang" is the noun
form of English "go"), I can easily understand "Ausgang", "Übergang",
"Untergang", etc. No need to learn separate words like "entrance",
"exit", ...

Of course, in terms of coinciseness, that saves nothing.


Peter> You've merely caused endless confusion in the student who
Peter> has to remember dozens of phrasal verbs for each of the 18
Peter> "basic" verbs, without the aid of etymology.

Yeah. Why not "go01", "go02", ..., "go18"? That should be "easier"!
:D


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