Talk:Lexicon

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please also note Vocabulary, does that overlap? (clem 18:04, 5 May 2005 (UTC))

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[edit] speech synthesis lexicon

i found a speech synthesis lexicon that i use quite frequently and i think it would be good to put it as an external link on here. it defines words and their pronunciations for speech engines. the only problem is that it comes as part of a zip file with some other speech synthesis tools and so there is no link that i can put in external links section that points to it. any ideas on what to do? is there a way you can upload text files to wikipedia for download from external links?

[edit] "Exceptions" to -able rule

I removed this sentence from the article:

(Though exceptions exist to this rule: one can certainly imagine a 'sleepable mattress' or the expression, 'Sure, that's workable.')

I don't think the comment was correct, for the following reasons:

  • While you can imagine what a "sleepable" matress might be, "sleepable" is not an English word, and English speakers are able to recognise that it isn't an English word. That's precisely because it is not formed according to the rules governing the "-able" suffix (because "sleep" is not a transitive verb).
  • Workable is not a counterexample to the rule, because "work" can be a transitive verb - for example, you can work metal.

Enchanter 16:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion for merging vocabulary and lexicon articles

First of all, please note that I'm not saying that I disagree with the proposal to merge lexicon and vocabulary articles, but I was wondering if someone might comment on the reasons for that suggestion. I'm currently editing a linguistics document and actually came here because I was hoping to find some direction to help answer the question of whether the terms vocabulary and lexicon are interchangeable (and it seems that I'm not the only one who is interested in that question). They might well be, but was wondering if someone could address both the merits of combining them and of keeping them separate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.81.41.91 (talk) 13:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)