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Re: Furbish

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 27, 1999, 1:39
Steg Belsky wrote:

> Well, a friend of mine's little sister has a Furby, and a book that > includes a dictionary of Furbish. I considered copying it down and > sending it to the list but i didn't have time before i had to go home. I > don't specifically remember seeing anything obviously Hebrew, although i > could just not remember much of it at all. I do remember seeing a few > very English words.
My impression of the language (before I quickly was able to hide myself in terror :) ) was that it seemed entirely lacking in anything that might warrant the name "language" -- I'm not sure, but I don't think even pronouns were used in any kind of systematic way. The speech seemed to consist of a few strings of verbs roots with a few nouns placed here or there, never in any particular order. But a problem is that when your sentences are never longer than three or four words, you can't really get much of a feel for this "language" (whatever it might be). =========================================== Tom Wier <artabanos@...> AIM: Deuterotom ICQ: 4315704 <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." "Things just ain't the way they used to was." - a man on the subway ===========================================