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Re: Ancient conlang

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Friday, January 16, 2004, 5:36
Isaac Penzev wrote:
> On the other hand, there are societies that are open for > incorporating foreing element by assimilating them, without losing own identity. > Examples: Japanese, Tagalog, Swahili.
Yet, even Japanese early on avoided borrowings, naming the months of the Gregorian calendar "1st month", "2nd month", etc., and creating compounds like "lightning-talk" for "telephone". This has, of course, changed in more recent times, to the extent that even formerly illegal syllables are now permitted, such as [ti], [tsa], [Pa], etc., and even a new phoneme /v/ (although many speakers still use [b]) -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42