Fave conlangs and essentialist explanations
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 25, 2002, 15:32 |
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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.
Dirk
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Man deth swa he byth thonne he mot swa he wile.
'A man does as he is when he can do what he wants.'
- Old English Proverb
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