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MorphemeAddict@hidden.email wrote: > > Why did you simplify the classifier classifications in LS-C? The more > detailed Nasendi version seems preferable. > I disagree. I feel that a smaller number of classes makes the language more aesthetic and easier to learn. I also thought that having more classes would make machine translation easier, but it didn't since almost all decisions that you can make about the colocation limitations of a particular class have words that are exceptions to the rule. Thus, special attributes must still be used in the machine dictionary. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.eskimo.com/~ram http://www.axxess.net/~ram