Re: OT: babel and english

andrew scripsit:

> > Thereupon a second friend said that wouldn't be too hard, since all
> > you'd have to do is have a maximally fusional language:  the entire
> > meaning of the Critique could be summed up in the word _po_
> > (I swear, my friends had not had any alcohol that evening!).
> >
> Yes, but does _po_ mean in Degaspregos?
Ah.  To understand *that* word, you'd have to study Kant for a few years!

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