[Corpora-List] Lesser (sic) used languages

Markus Saers masaers at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 14:50:49 UTC 2005


Could the term possibly refere to "lesser languages still in use" as
opposed to "lesser languages which are not used today"? :-)

/Markus

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:42:17 -0000, Somers, Harold
<harold.somers at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sorry for cross-posting, but I just saw an announcement for a conference on "Lesser Used Languages & Computer Linguistics", which looks like an interesting conference, but (the point of this posting), does anyone else cringe when they see "lesser used"? Shouldn't it be "less used"?
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