On 27/07/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
First off all, if creating inflections is done
programmatically, it is
not part of the database design. The database design says that there
will be a record for each inflection. The inflections are translated as
every other word is, there is Spelling for it. This means that these
words have an importance in their own right and that is more than just
the sharing of the meaning with a headword. So I do not share your
argument at all. Yes, we can generate inflections but this WILL result
in new Spelling - Word - Meaning. And as long as we do not have software
to do this for us, we will have to do it by hand.
Perhaps this software can simply be awk, sed or one of those things?
And perhaps we can call for people to start writing them?
:)