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Re: CHAT: Re : Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 15:01
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> and french is even better : it doesn't need morphem to topicalize ! > "c'est mon p=E8re le pompier".=20 > there is a nice french verb "to-be-my-father".
Just another instance of the phrancophone desire to have a word for *everything*. Someone once wrote to William Safire (newspaper columnist on the English language) requesting a neologism for "ex-wife-with-whom- one-is-having-an-affair". He retorted that this concept deserved a neologism about as much as "neighbor-whose-house-is-on-fire". Conlangers, to the rescue! --=20 John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin