Re: Negation

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 61886
Date: 2008-12-05

On 2008-12-05 12:15, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

> I've never read that somebody proposed that short words should be
> considered more probably inherited than long ones !?
> Is there a theory on that ?

Let us have a look at the parapgaph above. It contains the following
monosyllabic words:

I, have, read, that [conj.], short, words, should, be, more, than, long,
ones, is, there, a, on, that [pron.]

The following words are polysyllabic:

never, somebody, proposed, considered, probably, inherited, theory

In which group is there a larger proportion of inherited words?

Piotr