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From: mrz5149@rit.cs.rit.edu (M. R. Zucca)
Subject: Re: The whole language tree thing.
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In article <443uv5$b4q@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, wolfi@cs.tu-berlin.de
(Wolfgang Schwanke) wrote:

> In your model, all "ancestors" of English are weighted equally,
> whereas both properties of modern English and history of the language
> tell us that the ways Germanic and Romance impacted on English are not
> the same (and dare I say, not equally fundamental).
> The example illustrates that.

Perhaps you would prefer a weighted and directed graph?

:) :)

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