Re: [Corpora-List] Lesser (sic) used languages

From: Yorick WIlks (yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 15:23:17 MET

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    I cringe too but I think it may be right as "lesser" is (necessarily)
    an adverb modifying an adjective. The only guide I can remember in
    these things is the old adage (seeing as English doesnt have proper
    rules like French and German) that "it is important to remember that
    the lesser spotted finch is actually larger than the greater spotted
    finch". It probably wasnt "finch" either and was a letter to the Times
    not a real adage.
    Yorick Wilks

    On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Somers, Harold wrote:

    > Sorry for cross-posting, but I just saw an announcement for a
    > conference on "Lesser Used Languages & Computer Linguistics", which
    > looks like an interesting conference, but (the point of this posting),
    > does anyone else cringe when they see "lesser used"? Shouldn't it be
    > "less used"?
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