Re: li! (Was: Re: Naming mp3 players and Yakuza was Re: Comparison of philosophical languages)

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:18:50PM +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
>
> >
> > Hmm. So a person who found conlanging stupid decided to join a list
> > called "CONLANG", and to *promote* a conlang??
> >
>
> Don't ask auxlangers to be consistent. You know they don't know the
> meaning of the word :)) .
Because it doesn't contain a "li"? :-P

[snip]
> I still remember how surprised I was to see him arguing *against* the
> Mandarin 3rd person pronoun ta (don't know the tone) because it *didn't*
> distinguish sexes!!!! Hence my remark that auxlangers really only want
> what they don't already have ;))) .
That's /ta~1/.

But as far as pronouns are concerned... everybody should learn from
Ebisedian! Ebisedian pronouns distinguish between gender *and* number in
all their forms! And gender is not just masculine/feminine, it also
includes a distinct neuter, a distinct "wildcard" that applies to *either*
male or female (for those PC people among you)! There is no room for
ambiguity! Ebisedian will be the language of the future! ;-)

Oh, oops, I forgot. It doesn't distinguish between 2nd and 3rd persons.
That might be a problem for people who can't think in terms of
distant/intimate... :-P

[snip]
> I wonder how many books he actually sold. I mean, he must have paid a
> lot to have them printed in the first place...
Poor guy...

[snip]
> Well, I don't find the land Dorothy visited absurd enough compared to
> the land Alice visited. After all, Wonderland did have a conlanger:
> Humpty Dumpty! ;)))
[snip]

True. Though, believe it or not, I've never actually read Alice in
Wonderland. :-) (The only reason I did read the Wizard of Oz was because I
found it on Gutemberg.)


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