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And Rosta scripsit: > Why? Compounds are stems containing more than one root. No other rules > have been proposed; and I propose that there be no other rules. 1) Is bdfg- a compound of bdf- and dfg-? It certainly contains both of them. 2) Does CC- count as a root for this purpose? Because if so, you cannot tell if bcdfg- is bc- dfg- or bcd- fg-, and for bcdfgj- it's even worse: you don't know if there are two roots or three. 3) If there are to be no rules for dissecting or interpreting compounds, why bother to talk of compounds? Just say that roots can be arbitrarily long and the meaning of each is to be found in the dictionary, as in Classical Yiklamu, which has one arbitrarily chosen root for every one of the 90,000 WordNet synsets. -- Work hard, John Cowan play hard, cowan@hidden.email die young, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan rot quickly.