Re: Ro booklet "Roap" online temporarily

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 Rick Harrison wrote:
>
> Tadaima.
>
> For a week or so I've got a brochure about the a priori
> conlang Ro on my web site. For those of you who don't
> remember Ro, it's a conlang that catgorizes ideas and each
> word indicates what category it's in by its first syllable,
> e.g. all the words beginning with "lu" are plant species or
> words pertaining to plants. The grammar and syntax of Ro are
> just a straightforward encoding of English.
>
> The document is question is "Roap" which was published in
> 1921. The URL is
>
> http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/Roap1921.pdf
>
> I can't leave it there permanently for space/bandwidth
> reasons. If anyone is willing to give it a permanent home
> please let me know.
>
Hi Rick,

That brings back memories!  I first met Roap
when it was about half its present age - Dad
had a copy of the same document.  I was so
impressed at its logic - for a few days -
that I tried to talk my best friend into using
it with me.  But altho he was smart enough to
help me improve Monopoly into a game that
incorporated two new rows of streets between
the stations, that met in a stock market at
Times Square, he was hopeless with languages.

Anyway, I soon found that without some agreement
on basic categories, vocabulary development
would be impossible.  Nice idea, but.

Sorry I have no webspace to host this for you!
Has the copyright expired yet?

Regards,
Yahya

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