Re: Fave conlangs and essentialist explanations

At 08:19 AM 3/25/02 -0700, Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>At 2:04 PM +0000 03/25/02, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>>  --- John Cowan wrote:
>>>  > Esperanto, which looks to me like a crippled
>>cross-
>>>  > over between Italian and Spanish.
>>>
>>>  Added.
>>
>>Oops. Sorry, sometimes I express myself in a more
>>provocative way than I actually intend to.
>
>No apologies necessary. John was referring to his list of Essentialist
>Explanations, in which languages are described as being "essentially X".
>Point your browser to: http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html. The
>descriptions can be quite amusing.
    One that I posted was missed, from the last time Essentialism came up:
    Rav Zarruvo is essentially Native American war chants being attempted
by a group of dyslexic Chinese with severe indigestion problems, who think
they're learning Hindi.

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