Talk:Lexicon

Merge Vocabulary and Lexicon?

Please discuss this issue in the vocabulary discussion page. This way, everyone interested will know what everyone interested is saying. Thanks.

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?

"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)

Even worse, the example of "cry" as an intransitive verb is absurd: One can cry alligator tears, for example; hence, such tears are "cryable." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabaduria37 (talk • contribs) 15:21, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Or you could cry words, as in to shout them out. It's definitely a transitive verb there. Though I would argue that "sleepable" is in fact an English word since it is used in English, and I assume only English (maybe some Scots?), being derived from English words and suffixes and used by English speakers. It's just not standard. RCIWesner (talk) 05:18, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

were you guys high when you wrote this article?

it reads like you were on some really good mushrooms or something. I read the article twice and I still have no idea what a lexicon is. I'm going to smoke some pot later tonight and read it again. maybe then it will make sense. in the meantime you might consider reading it yourself from the standpoint of an ordinary (and sober) person and see if it makes any sense to you. thanks and keep up the good work, even if you're stoned when you're doing it.