17-02-2026, 01:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-02-2026, 01:18 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(17-02-2026, 05:22 AM)Dunsel wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why does a lexical "engine" make a drastic switch like "ed" if the vocabulary isn’t actually changing much?
You may have seen You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. I think it is evidence that "language A" and "language B" are the same language with two different "spellings" -- but not completely different.
I don't know whether one could obtain a similar plot if the languages were truly different. Even for closely related languages, like Spanish and Portuguese. I wonder if such a reduction to a common core would work for Norwegian in the Nynorsk and Bokmål spellings. Or for Portuguese before and after the 1943 spelling reform.
All the best, --stolfi