[Corpora-List] Lesser (sic) used languages

[Yorick WIlks]

I cringe too but I think it may be right as "lesser" is (necessarily)
an adverb modifying an adjective. The only guide I can remember in
these things is the old adage  (seeing as English doesnt have proper
rules like French and German) that "it is important to remember that
the lesser spotted finch is actually larger than the greater spotted
finch". It probably wasnt "finch" either and was a letter to the Times
not a real adage.
Yorick Wilks



On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Somers, Harold 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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