Re: Strange voices

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Tristan McLeay :
>
>> Surely you know of The Law of Natlangs Having Already Done it? :P
>
> Of course! But I had never heard the name of an actual OVS language
> :)) . I
> had only heard of Malagasy, and that's a VOS language, not OVS :)) .
So you're trying to tell me you *doubt* the accuracy of the law?! I'm
appalled, I really am.

>>  (I've
>> heard about at least one of these languages... dunno if it's this one or
>> not (I think the I'm thinking of is South American)... Apparently it's
>> the least common word order, though. (Surprise, surprise))
>
> LOL. I seem to remember (was it from Carlos Thompson?) that Colombian
> Sign
> Language or some other sign languages from South America was OSV or OVS
> (can't remember exactly). Is my memory completely defect? :)) Maybe
> that's
> what you heard of...
I'm almost certain it was a spoken language. Though that's only
extrapolating from context; a couple of years ago (it might actually
have been four years, god I'm getting old[1]), someone did a talk at the
Melbourne Science Fiction Club about conlangs in SF stories and for some
reason mentioned this one.

[1]: Sorry for all you others, but it's true. I'm no longer just getting
old, but a past of four years ago can still be relevant to today. That's
a poor explanation, but still...

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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