Re: Anth Assignment Conorthography

nicole perrin wrote:
> Not that I really know, but, it seems to me that a system like that
> would work much more simply with an agglutinating language than with an
> inflecting one, because an agglutinating language would (usually) have
> fewer suffixes, you just stick them on one after another
Well, an inflecting language could be written AS IF it were
agglutinating, so that, even if case and number are completely fused,
one might write "CAT-PLURAL-GENITIVE" for the genetive plural of cat.

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