> The reaction I got recently from an academic friend (I'm beginning to
> come out
> of the closet a little more now that I've been writing about this in
> academic circles) was: "how ARROGANT!"
>
> Addressing the (to him) arrogant assumption that any one
> person could replicate the complexity and history of a real language.
>
> I asked him if he would have the same response to "I am building a
> miniature city."
>
> As soon as I invoked the "miniature" element, he could understand.
> See, he thought, at first, that I and all the rest of you are trying
> to build full-sized cities, all by ourselves. <G>
>
> Sally
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> "The gods have retractible claws."
> from _The Gospel of Bastet_
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