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Re: Fw: Intro to natural language processing

To: Rob Freeman <rjfreeman@EMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Fw: Intro to natural language processing
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@BESTWEB.NET>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:19:36 -0500
Cc: John Bateman <bateman@uni-bremen.de>, cg@CS.UAH.EDU, wlawvere@buffalo.edu, standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG, jld@club-internet.fr, S.Polovina@shu.ac.uk, Rich Cooper <richcooper@mindspring.com>
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Rob,

I wasn't aware of the Singaporean dialect:

RF>  I always thought the Singaporean "lah" might come
 > from the Chinese particle "le" myself, but according
 > to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish it is a Malay
 > influence.

My informant did say "lah", but I also assumed it was
a variant of "le".

In any case, those are interesting examples
of grammatical borrowings.

John

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- Re: Fw: Intro to natural language processing
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