Re: concepts of Babel text
| From: | <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 4, 2001, 16:13 |
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On Fri, 4 May 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Dan Jones wrote:_
> >Easily solved: Schleicher's "sheep and horses" fable!!! No cultural
> >thingummy-wotsits and it's got a lot of linguistic significance. Perfect
> >solution!!
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> I'm sure we've got a few conlangs here whose speaker never have seen a
> sheep, nor a horse ...
Or if they have, they have never even heard of the idea of SHEARING!!!
Praxians, for example, consider horses to only be fit for killing and
leaving to the hyenas. They have no concept of "sheep", except perhaps
as "something with the same kind of head as a Broo"--and Broo are
extremely evil. As for shearing--again, no concept. One wears tanned
skins, not fur without skins.