RE: Corpora: tetragram

Karen Stanley (kstanley@charlotte.infi.net)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:55:46 -0500

Markus Schulze suggests:
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Please note that the terms 'tetragram' (a word consisting of
four letters, from the greek tetragrammaton, refering to the name of
god usually transliterated as YHWH) and 'pentagram' (a geometric
figure) you find listed in your dictionary do not refer to n-grams.

So, if a new term has to be coined we might follow logical arguments.
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Sure.
There is an alternative possibility:
Since -gram- is Greek, another type of logic
would suggest that the prefix and the stem should
originate from the same language...
and with a word already existing, though not (perhaps)
yet with the additional meaning, it might make more
sense to follow an already existing logic than to
create a new one.
But: I'm not sure it really makes a lot of difference.
Karen
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