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Re: pro-anything

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Date:Sunday, May 2, 1999, 18:39
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 02/05/99 19:09:26  , vous avez =E9crit :

<< Josh Brandt-Young wrote:
 >
 > Speaking of pro-verbs, here's a post from Mark Line on the subject...
 >
 > ---------
 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:55:39 -0700
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 Hey! I remember that post! Now I just feel older than dirt.
 Ok, it was only 1996, but I've had two more children since then, so it
 SEEMS like it has been ages...
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 Mia
  >>

I have no child yet but still it seems ages ago to me too. I remember that=20
thread quite well. It made me develop a syntactic deictic (to refer to=20
former, next clauses and arguments). It's interesting good to see that the=20
same topics keep being discussed by younger conlangers. It makes me think=20
that there are "universal" conlanging issues. But is there any conlanging=20
progress ?

Mathias