Re: Suprafixes (was Re: TECH: Testing again, no new on-topic content (...))

In a message dated 2003:11:15 11:02:37 AM, paul-bennett@NC.RR.COM writes:

> [ . . . ] I'm pretty well just going to fire and forget when it comes
>to this language, and go with first instincts all the way. Do I care if
>this makes a higgledy-piggledy mess of a language? No, I do not. Real
>languages are messy.
    yepyep. I like messiness...
    One major reason I was an AuxLang List heretic was that very point -
towards the end of my auxlanging before my defection to this list, I was in favour
of a highly _naturalistic_ pidgin-like auxlang that was based on Tok Pisin,
China Coast Pidgin English, and Greco-Latin International Scientific
Vocabulary. (Since then I have widened my interests ;)
    But the hardcore auxlangers didn't like mentions of either pidgins or
"naturalism" - guess they are "control-freaks."

>At least, I don't care yet. I may have a nervous breakdown somewhere along
>the way. ;-)
    LOL! One of the risks of conlanging... a  good number of us here have
mental/psych problems and take meds for 'em... (or should) ...
    Which reminds me... ::goes to take his meds::

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