Re: shopping list's too long...

At 21:42 01/12/98 +0000, you wrote:
>At 18:05 30.11.1998 +1300, Andrew Smith wrote:
>>I was writing my shopping list before I went to the supermarket on
>>Saturday and I wrote lettuce, and the thought went through my head "Now
>>that's lla llaethyg in Brithenig".  Suddenly I knew I had to work out what
>>all the rest were.  An afternoon's work discovered about half the things I
>>buy could be translated offhand from words I already know or have on file,
>>but I still have find things like "vegemite", "salami", and "weet-bix"!  I
>>think conlanging is its own punishment!
>>
>>Has anyone else had this happen to them?
>>
        Everytime! But my problem is that I have five conlangs in process (that's
to say in process of creating vocabulary), so when I'm thinking "how could
I translate that in Moten?", it comes to "how could I tranlate that also in
Azak, in Reman, in Notya, in Astou?" plus now "how could I translate that
in Tj'a-ts'a~n?". Those six languages are very far one from the other so my
brain begins to boil and I'm obliged to stop there! I think I must calm
down a little!

>>- andrew.
>>
>
>Sometimes when trying to unscramble the syntax of a sentence in Tibetan or
>Middle Iranian, whose syntaxes are quite different both from each other and
>from NW Germanic like English or Swedish, I find myself starting to work
>out how the same should be expressed in Funus.  I'm especially vulnerable
>to that right now, having taken up Funus after a long hiatus and being
>engaged in a major reworking if its morphosemantics and syntax.  I thought
>both were too much like a human language...
>
        Do you know Tibetan? I'd like to know about this language. I have sympathy
to the Tibetan cause, but over all I like very much their writing system. I
think it's the most beautiful one after the Arabic alphabet. Is there any
website about the Tibetan language?

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