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Re: CHAT: Using cats for practice

From:Diana Slattery <slattd@...>
Date:Monday, December 7, 1998, 14:19
James Campbell wrote:

> H=EFlad, > > I am coming to the opinion that a good way to practise speaking one's > conlang is to use it when talking to the cat. Such conversations have a > number of benefits: > > * It is essentially one-sided,
don't be too sure of that. i defer to sally's expert opinion.
> so there is no need to spend time trying > to work out what the other person is saying; this gives more time to > concentrate on getting the right case, word order, etc for one's own > next sentence. Cat speech, while somewhat ambiguous (see Conlang > passim) is easy to parse.
please don't confuse "ambiguous" for "subtle" or "highly metaphorical, i= n a slippery sort of way" diana