Re: SURVEY: Scariest Short Sentences in Your ConLangs

tomhchappell wrote:

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>>/bërjë/ [bE.xjE]
>>It's the irrational 2SG pronoun that should be used only for
>> animals, artificial lifeforms and things that are not people.
> Excellent!  A gendered second-person pronoun!
I wonder where this neat idea came from!  ;-)  (Err... From you, in case
you didn't remember.)

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>>= We will ignore you, you which isn't a person.
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> Like "sending to Coventry".
Maybe... I don't know... All I know is that Coventry is a city of
England. If I dig deeper in my memory, it gets on the tip of its tongue
that it may be related to some royal jail.

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> (BTW the Xerox Language Guesser thought your sentence was in
> Albanian.)
Well, Albanian, Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic... and even
Swahili! I also made the test with Shaquelingua and I got these various
answers depending on the sentence.

What would really interest me is to have a look at the sources of the
engine behind the pages.  ]:-)

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