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Re: Language Lessons

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Thursday, August 2, 2001, 1:41
Am 08/01 08:13  Frank George Valoczy yscrifef:

> I have thg Finnish one (also the Portuguese and Russian) of that series > with the old yellow cover. > > If that matters at all... >
I trawl second-hand bookstores looking for those. Just a minute: 19 of the yellow covers although 5 are missing dust covers. 3 yellow paperbacks 4 blue paperbacks. I saw TY Bengali the other week and put it back, it wasn't transliterated. Still, I don't have a copy of it yet.... I replaced my copy of TY Finnish at the same time. I had given my last copy to a friend who intended to follow his girlfriend back to Finland. I don't think he mastered the language though. Same happened to my copy of TY Portuguese which I've also replaced. A friend in another city has promised me copies of TY Cantonese and TY Vietnamese, but I think they are blue editions. I recently decided to string together an eclectic conlang made up of as many irregularities and samples that I could glean from my collection. I'm about a quarter way through making notes. It's something I wanted to try to do. :) I also commodeered TY NT Greek from my flatmate and I have found TY Indonesian in the College Library I work in. Thank God for retired missionaries! - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@griffler.co.nz alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html 'That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!' - The Waste Land, T.S. Elliot.