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

From: Damon Chaplin (damon@karuna.uklinux.net)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 19:13:41 MET

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On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:42, 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"?

Is there a collective noun for linguists? I propose "a cringe of
linguists".

You can have "Cringe Meetings" at conferences!

Damon

(I think "Lesser Used" is fine, but I'm not a linguist.)

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