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Re: Concreoles?

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Monday, February 12, 2007, 19:31
andrew ikrih:


| On Thursday 08 February 2007 9:09 pm, Isaac Penzev wrote:
| > IMO, LF is a really interesting sample of a creol lang, though I
| > don't believe the opinion that all existing creols back to LF.
| >
| It seems to have contributed a handful of words that are always assumed
| to be creole, like sabi and pikanini.

Why not? Through sailors' jargon, maybe.

| > | I still have both files.
| >
| > Could you send me a copy?
| >
| Certainly.  I mentioned them because I thought you might like to see
| them.  They are written in KWord.  One is 75.1 KB, the other is 21.9
| KB.  What format would be suitable for you to receive them in?

I would prefer pdf or html, if it is easy for you to convert them and they
won't be much larger after that. As I am siiting at dialup, 200-300 KB is
quite tolerable upper limit per one message.

| > That's what I have in mind wrt a concreole project, too.
| >
| That's what concreoles are fun for.  What plans do you have for such a
| language.

If possible, I'll explain the strategy later. But the goal is one - fun! No
serious conWALs!

| conlang I have been making gramatical notes for.  Weird!  Nothing is
| ever wasted!

Exactly. The great Michael Lomonosov told that!

| - andrew.

-- Yitzik