Re: Natural language with the MOST irregular verbs?

On 03 Dec 2003 "Sebastian Hew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in
sci.lang: 

[...]

> The point is that English is a Germanic language,
> and a standard meaning of the terms apply for Germanic
> languages. To redefine the terms specifically for English
> means that the term may be used in two subtly different
> way, and since both would occur in the same context (i.e., 
> pertaining to verbs) there is no way to disambiguate them
> without some sort of a priori knowledge. Why use confuse
> the terms weak/strong in this manner? Surely some other
> pair of words could have been chosen. 

I agree.  I'd be inclined to substitute 'regular' and 
'irregular'; they're not perfectly apt, but I doubt that 
students would have much trouble with them.

Brian