On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 12:01 +0000, David Instone-Brewer wrote: > I was hoping to look at the possibility of adding a "Root" field to > the Strongs modules, so that people could do a search for similar > words. > As a starting point I was going to find a programming way of > identifying clusters from Strong's own internal links to similar words
This takes me back to a strong (no pun intended) note of caution given by a lecturer at Cambridge. He is a Hebrew expert, and warned us to be VERY cautious with research based on 'roots'. He gave a couple of English examples, and pointed out the words 'ladybird', (Americans more sensibly call it a 'ladybug' which works properly), but 'ladybird' .... ? His other example was 'butterfly'. He assured us that Hebrew has at least as many such anomalies. God bless, Barry Drake -- What do you see when you use your Computer? Same old thing? ...There IS a Better Way! Ubuntu! _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page