Re: relative weirdness (was Re: signal and noise in phonologies and scripts)

On 13 Dec, Roger Mills wrote:

> Ah well, they are
> >> probably young, and will someday learn that not everything we do must
> have
> >a
> >> "practical" value.
> >
> >And _then_ they'll listen to their elders, right?  ;-)
>
> Wasn't it Mark Twain who said (I paraphrase):   "When I was 20, I thought
my
> father was totally ignorant.  When I was 40, I was surprised to see how
much
> he had learned over the years."

    Very true! And as Margaret Atwood put it (IIRC):

"We thought we were running away from the grown-ups,
and now we are the grown-ups."

    Anyhow, I was just kidding (note the emoticon). Actually
my kids and I agree on a suprising number of things!
They also have their differences of opinion with me, and why not?
They're people too!
    ObConlang: the general reaction in my home to my saying
something about my conlanging is usually a heavenly directed
roll of the eyes, signalling something like "Oh no! Here we go again!"
Not nasty, mind you; more like just a topic they've heard a lot of
and would consequently like to talk of something else!

Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.

A word is an awesome thing.