Re: Nineteen-year-old language sketch unearthed!

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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