Re: Yepyep YHL (was Re: I'm new!)

On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, czHANg wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 09:52:15 -0400, YHL wrote:
> >
> >  I looked at IAL's only this summer, really, and thought, Nah.  But then,
> as a writer-aspirant I'm too fond of the idiosyncrasies and varieties of
> languages as they exist.  :-)
>
>         Well there are a few IALs that were purposely made to be naturalistic-like
> and are IMHO closer to creative conlangs: Richard Harrison's Vorlin and
> Zengo immediately pop into my Higher Primate Mind
> (http://rick.harrison.net/langlab) and also Novial seems pretty interesting.
> [Rick Harrison's essay "Farewell to IALs" is worth reading... it's under
> _Ideas_ in his LangLab website]
I read that.  It was intriguing.  However, with all the artlangs and
conlangs out there, most IAL's are pretty low on my list of things to
look at.

> >  I've seen a 7-language dictionary for sale in the Campus Store at Cornell
> >  but don't know if that's what you mean by a polyglot dictionary.
>
>         Yep, that's a polyglot dictionary... but I 'd like more than just 7
> European-centric languages. I have seen a polyglot dictionary at my public
> library that is titled _Comprehensive Dictionary of 27 Languages_ (published
> circa 1966 or '67) that has a much wider variety of languages. Unfortunately
> the library Authoritarians won't let that dictionary outta their eyeballing
> range & without signing for it in triplicate (sheesh they might as well have
> it on a chain and 1 ton iron ball). Darn... I was gonna "borrow" it for a
> few months and then return it. Honest ;)
The one I saw was European-centric.  One of my Korean grammars
cross-lists Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin?) but that's
Far East-centric.  Have you tried Amazon.com?  I've occasionally ahd luck
finding things on their site, whether or not I buy from them.

YHL