Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

en memo 2003:01:30 11.47.07 gogo (pm), *s3rpentei* Yitzik (isaacp@UKR.NET)
graffi:

>Greg Williams scripsit:
>
><<I was thinking of creating a "fun" personal sort of conlang picking out
><<things from languages I like and adding my own stuff.  I want to know if
><<and how often others do mixes like that.>>
>
>Heq! Is there something in the air? The same idea came into my mind a couple
>of days ago. Surely it's fun!
    That is the whole idea of "mangalanging" AFAIK ;)  The keyword is FUN,
spasso, lol, LOL...

><<Have any of yall created an 'a priori' language with a lot of 'a
><<posteriori' vocabulary (i.e., with a lot of the lexicon from natlangs)
>
>If it is born, it will definitely be this kind of thing. But maximally
>disguised!
    Or as Jan (ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK) is fond of quoting in his sig.:

    >"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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