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Re: Accidental Conlanging

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Thursday, January 23, 2003, 8:18
Mike Ellis wrote:
> Hmm... never buy new what you can buy used.
One of my proudest used book purchases is a grammar of German written in Korean, bought for $1. It just amuses me to see all the hangul mixed with German words and phrases and inflectional tables and the like. :-) Also, it uses the IPA in pronunciation, which was neat.
> > - have memorized the _entire_ IPA and at least one ASCII > >representation thereof > > Well, a good two-thirds of it...
I've got most of the IPA down, and maybe half of SAMPA.
> Check. Once when I bashed my kneecap I shouted LAAAklibza DAK! I excused it > as gibberish that I had blurted out in mindless pain. Phew.
What's that mean? -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42