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Re: Nineteen-year-old language sketch unearthed!

From:Ph.D. <phil@...>
Date:Friday, April 27, 2007, 16:34
Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
> > Archeologists digging in my spare room have > at long last reunited a lost notebook with its > tattered first page, and I have rediscovered a > language I had previously remembered only > from a single surviving utterance. > > In 1988, a 14-year-old highschool sophomore, > I ran across the idea of polysynthetic, verb-based > languages in the encyclopedia, if I recall correctly.
That's pretty impressive. When I was 14, I was working on a language which was nothing more than a simple relex of English. --Ph. D.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>