Re: [OT] Call for contributions to new 1,000 Language Online Archive

[Lukas Pietsch]

> Thou art right saying that thou doest not normally speak like an
> international treaty. But wouldst thou say that these
>
<http://www.rosettaproject.org:8080/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=ENG&doc
t
> ype=vocab&version=1&scale=six> really are the 100 most common words in
thy
> language? :-)

You may want to have a look at, for example:
www.fitzroydearborn.com/chicago/linguistics/sample-swadesh-morris.php3
for a short appraisal of the sense or non-sense of "Swadesh lists".


Lukas