Re: Easy and Interesting Languages -- Website

In a message dated 2004:05:25 08:17:55 PM, fiziwig@YAHOO.COM writes:

>If you want to do something REALLY original, how about
>a study on how easy or hard it is to learn a language
>you once spoke in a previous incarnation. ;)
*snarfle!*  :thumps Gary {playfully}, then _sotte voce_:: That was a cheap
shot, Fizi...hilarious ;) Ya musta been a crazy lingua-manglin' Zen monk in one
of yours... or a very talkative Siamese cat ;)

    Now what would be intriguin' is a _conlang_ survey, hehe... ranging -
let's say - from Pikachu, Furbish and Toki Pona to Tech, Lin and *gulp-EEK! run
fer ya lives!* Maggel, etc.!

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