Re: Uusisuom, Unilang, auxlang discussions in CONLANG

On Thursday, April 26, 2001, at 07:25 , Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>> En rÈponse ‡ Daniel44 <Daniel44@...>:
>> quite difficult. Many of the word derivations escape me (purple
>> associated with
>> anger? It doesn't even make sense, when you're angry your face gets red,
>>  not
>> purple. When your face gets purple it's when you're choking) so what's
>> the point
>> of making such derivations if the meaning is not transparent. It makes the
>
Actually, I know a number of people who turn rather purple when they get
excited
(for whatever reason, not necessarily anger).


Andy

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