Re: Survey (a new one!)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 1, 1998, 3:29 |
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:52:48 -0300, Pablo Flores
<fflores@...> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm starting a new conlang and I was curious:
>what are your first words in these cases? Do you have
>a special "test bed" for your conlangs, such as a text
>to be translated? Where do your words come from?
I don't have a standard text that I use for all my languages, but some =
that
I've used in the past include
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The cow jumped over the moon.
This sentence is written in <insert language name here>.
Do you speak <insert language name here>?
This is a gray mouse.
I am drinking water.
The sky is red at sunset.
Cats like to purr.