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Langmaker.com and another thought (was Re: LUNATIC SURVEY: 2005)

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 19:24
Max/#1 wrote:
>*10. Do you peruse Jeffrey Henning's Langmaker.com site? >
No it needs a website and I don't ave any> Only if you have a conlang site and want to post it. Otherwise, the blog etc. makes fairly interesting reading. I hadn't really explored it until just the other day. And the list of Conlangs (sorted in various useful ways) is really impressive-- ======================= Nothing to do with #1's reply---
>*7. How many of you have developed a rich vocabulary of obscenities? >
Someone commented that what's obscene (or just merely insulting) would depend on the conculture. And I suspect many of of have overlooked that-- I know I have, in many cases, and ought to devote more thought to getting away from the defecatory/sexual obscenities that _we_ consider so horrible. I wonder if it's a Judaeo-Christian (+Islamic) thing...:-)) Any comments about other cultures/traditions? nat- as well as con-??

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