analytical versus inflected languages

[Grant Barrett]

On mardi 3 octobre 2000 09:54, Paul Frank <paulfrank at WANADOO.FR>
wrote:
>I'm not a linguist, so I'm asking
>this question in a spirit of what the Chinese would call
"throwing a brick
>to get a piece of jade in return" (pao zhuan yin yu), or
putting forth my
>inexpert opinion to induce someone else's learned response.

Hey, that's my trick. My brick.