Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

At 16:35 7.3.2003 -0500, John Cowan wrote:

>Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
> > Did you really say that to yourself?! Are you really fluent in your
> langugage
> > like Sally said you were?! Incredible!!! I just so wished I could just
> utter a
> > single sentence in a conlang of mine!
>
>Well, um, y'know, Christophe, maybe if your conlangs weren't so maggelitous,
>you might be able to achieve that desirable goal.
Sohlob isn't really maggelitous, but I keep changing the basic vocabulary
in it all the time, which is an enormous impediment to learning any
vocabulary.  Incidentally those few words which I **have** memorized tend
to be stable, i.e. I keep them thru the reworkings.

>Of course, I say that as
>someone who can't utter very many sentences in Lojban either, but that's
>because
>you have to *think* in Lojban to talk Lojban, and that is real work.
LOL

>Besides,
>I have zero talent for memorizing vocabulary,
Me too.  I know the grammar of Finnish and Italian, but when I have to
speak Italian I improvise from English and Latin vocabulary, which is only
correct some 60 per cent of the time...

>so I can parse most Lojban but
>I have no idea what is being talked about.
I'm in the same situation with Quenya. (OOPS!  What did I admit to now?)

> > It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
Christope, seeing how you are a self-acknowledged non-straight proves that
claim wrong! >;)


>???? Do they have Frank Perdue chickens in France?  Say it ain't so, Joe!
>(Anyway, it would sound like a weird mixture of franc-tireur and enfant
>perdu.)
I don't get this!



/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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