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<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Well, I certainly
wouldn't want to argue with lexicographic experience.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>My basic
recollection was from the perspective of lexicology rather than
lexicography.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>That is, I found a
pocket dictionary to be largely adequate to explain the contents
of</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>a 1 million word
corpus, whereas when one went to larger corpora, it was clear one
needed</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>larger dictionaries
to explain their contents.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I guess I shouldn't
have thought one could "invert" such experience to infer that
the dictionary adequate</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>for the
corpus meant the corpus was adequate to "build" the dictionary to start
with.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Certainly I never
intended to imply that the variability in meaning possible was covered in the
corpus--only that</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=996371916-01102002><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>the vocabulary used
was largely comparable to the coverage of a pocket dictionary (at 1 million
words).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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