On 16/06/2012 11:19 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jun/16/2012, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
>>> How about:
>>> ems -> emu -> emo -> ego -> ago
>>>
>>> Got to admit that it took the online OED to come up with emo but it is
>>> in there.
> I also have to admin: I saw this mail in
On 17/06/12 10:01, Gadget/Steve wrote:
If you need a complete, always up to date, dictionary then you need to
work in a dead language like Latin - no new words introduced for over a
thousand years AFAIK or an artificial one, e.g. Esperanto where a
committee or other authority specifies which word
On 17/06/2012 10:24, Richard Smedley wrote:
On 17/06/12 10:01, Gadget/Steve wrote:
If you need a complete, always up to date, dictionary then you need to
work in a dead language like Latin - no new words introduced for over a
thousand years AFAIK or an artificial one, e.g. Esperanto where a
comm
On 17/06/12 11:29, Tim Golden wrote:
I would also point you towards the Vatican's dictionary of modern-day
Latin (which it needs for documents which reference "astronaut",
"television" and, presumably, "scanning electron microscope"). This is
the Italian version. I'm sure you get the idea.
http
On 17/06/2012 11:56, Richard Smedley wrote:
On 17/06/12 11:29, Tim Golden wrote:
I would also point you towards the Vatican's dictionary of modern-day
Latin (which it needs for documents which reference "astronaut",
"television" and, presumably, "scanning electron microscope"). This is
the Itali
On 17/06/12 12:08, Tim Golden wrote:
Since we're on the subject -- although going increasingly off it -- I
very much recommend an article by the retired teacher who translated
Harry Potter into classical Greek. Obviously it's interesting to see
what he's done with modern words. But what's particu
