Re: Yaguello [was: Re: LUNATIC again]

At 17:12 24.11.1998 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
>Sally:
>> Marina Yaguello made this same mistake, caving in to the same old
>> stereotypes about invented languages.  Only HER target was auxiliary
>> languages, which she attacks with a personal vengeance that is unsettling
>> (most inventors of language are middle-European; most of them don't know a
>> thing about linguistics--which she "corroborates" with the remark in a
>> note that professional linguists don't do this, despite Jespersen,
>> Saussure, etc. etc; most of them are dreamers; most of them are
FWIW the Esperantist Saussure wasn't the linguist Saussure, but his brother
Rene'.  Never heard that the other objected to his brother's interest,
though!

BTW: _Was_ Marr really a conlanger?

[Yes!  I'm _*REALLY*_ behind in my mail.  My old harddisk drive finally
decided that it wouldn't play anymore, and it took some time to find a
substitute at an acceptable price.]

/BP

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