>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>Status: R
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>Ed Heil wrote:
>>
>> Fascinating tidbit from the article on Nu Shu:
>>
>> "The penalty for creating new languages was death for the
>> transgressor, their family and nine related families. "
>
>Wow! I guess we can all be glad that isn't true today, eh? :-)
Right, the penalty for creating a new --xlang thread is down to
banishment for the transgressor and nine related threads. That's
`threads`, as in T-shirt.
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