Re: Newest natlang?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> On 27/09/2008, Jake B <blookerboy95@...> wrote:
>> Though we borrow little from them.
>
> You try writing a text* without using* words we got from Norman
> French, then (and words we borrowed later from Latin or Greek or
> coined* using* such forms*). (At least the words with asterisks aren't
> purely Germanic TTBOMK.)
William Morris wrote a number of novels and poems in such more
or less purely Germanic English; lots of fun.  If you try to write on
scientific or academic subjects without Romance or Latin/Greek
words, though, you end up with something like this:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.language.artificial/msg/69250bac6c7cbaff

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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/fluency-survey.html
Conlang fluency survey -- there's still time to participate before
I analyze the results and write the article

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