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TBPO wrote: ↑12 Feb 2025 13:21

DV82LECM wrote: ↑12 Feb 2025 05:56 Using Samuel Morse's English character frequency results (to make Morse Code) of 2000 examples or more, I get:

/m n/
/t d k/
/f s h/
/w l r j/

/i u e o a/

How do you got it?

Um, I just took the letters with 2000 examples or more. I don't get the question.

Using Samuel Morse's English character frequency results (to make Morse Code) of 2000 examples or more, I get:

/m n/
/t d k/
/f s h/
/w l r j/

/i u e o a/

Your glyphs are pleasing. They look like Sinitic-characterized Muplo

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VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 05:16

DV82LECM wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024 04:37 I wouldn't consider /-s/ "fusional,"

It marks two different categories on one morpheme, so it's fusional.

Spanish /-í/ is my favorite example. It is 1st person AND past tense. That's fusional.

English is fusional in as much as it is really synthetic at all. But that's not really very significant with borderline cases like English. Like -s is fusional for present tense and 3rd person singular, but it's also the only present tense marker, and the only 3sg marker, so like who cares I wouldn...

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