Re: Natural language with the MOST irregular verbs?

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

The entire point, however, is that the strong verbs are NOT irregular.
They are complicatedly regular.
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Peter T. Daniels                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]