Re: [ontolog-forum] One new English word every 98 minutes

[Adrian Walker <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joel --

To try to keep up with you, I'm trying to think how to work the word antidisestablishmentarianism into this email.  Aha, seems I have done so (:-).

But seriously, you may like to take a look at the *open* vocabulary system online at the site below.  The English semantics are strict, and I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out how that works.

                                  Cheers,  -- Adrian

Internet Business Logic
A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English over SQL and RDF
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com    Shared use is free

Adrian Walker
Reengineering

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Joel Bender <jjb5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Adrian,

> According to the Global Language Monitor (
> http://www.languagemonitor.com/no-of-words ), there's a new English word
> with significant usage every 98 minutes.

Too bad it doesn't seem to indicate how many words are no longer
significant.

> So, does this strengthen the case for controlled vocabularies, or
> indicate that the task of controlling the English language is hopeless?

Depending on my audience I have a propensity to be a bit sesquipedalian,
 but that's only to compensate for the drudgery of being confined to
such controlled languages, and like other programmers that aren't
renowned for their ability to pontificate illustriously, I just end up
sounding like a long winded n00b.

:-)


Joel


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