RE: [OT] Call for contributions to new 1,000 Language Online Arch ive

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 09:31:40 EDT


John Hudson wrote:
> The trouble with a corpus based on the UDHR is that posterity will be
> convinced that 'Whereas', or its equivalent, was the most important
> and frequent word in every culture at the beginning of the third
> millennium. :)

Thou art right saying that thou doest not normally speak like an
international treaty. But wouldst thou say that these
<http://www.rosettaproject.org:8080/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=ENG&doct
ype=vocab&version=1&scale=six> really are the 100 most common words in thy
language? :-)

Ciao.
Marco



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