Re: Conlanging as a personal thing

Sally Caves scripsit:

> The married
> couple that John described in the "Introduction to Paul Burgess" thread are
> a real find.  How lovely to be working on an invented language together, and
> to get to speak to each other in it--at breakfast, in bed, on email... it's
> like an intellectual form of "twin speech."  Vocabulary would grow by leaps
> and bounds because you would have a partner to reinforce your mutual
> inventions.  Sigh!
Yes indeed.  Bob in fact proposed to Nora in Lojban, or rather proto-Lojban:
Lojban content words, Loglan function words -- the Lojban ones hadn't been
(re)invented yet.

> Fyl krespro uary mal bettai, send ain nicodel elry kare.
"Full crispy were many betters, but the(pl.) nicodels will:be sweet."

> "Your letter have I now received, and meaningful did I think it."
Oh well.

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