Marco Cimarosti scripsit: > Why? 200 millions should be more than enough: that's more than 30.000 words > for each living language.
The Oxford English Dictionary has almost 10 times that many main entries. And if we want to record every obvious derivative, 4 million words (times 6000 languages) seems a reasonable upper bound. Granted, English has a fat vocabulary, but let's think big here. > In practice, it will always be rendered as > "-tu wa-" because no one will invest in implementing Swahili rendering. How right you are. -- John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
