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Re: Four things: Was: Comparison of philosophical languages

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, January 24, 2003, 13:19
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:23:46AM -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
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> I don't dismiss any language project, And. I have preferences, though, as > do you. I don't yet particularly LIKE the language in question that has > been the subject of so much debate and intemperate outburst, lately, or its > (to me) awkward and limited form of building words--anymore than I expect > everyone to like MY invented language. At times, *I* don't like it so much, > and wish I had invented, say, Ebisedian. :)
You flatter me. ;-) Would you like to adopt Ebisedian? :-) Lately, I've been getting this awful feeling that I need to do a *major* overhaul on it, keeping nothing but a handful of existing words and the case system, and basically rebuilding another language, with a different name even. Or at the very least, I'll keep most of the existing grammar but completely replace the phonology and lexical feel.
> But it's so much a part of me that I can no more divorce it than if it > were my own child growing up. To me it is beautiful and rare. CONLANG, > however, has a humbling element to it, as I found out five years ago > when I joined, and saw all the other rare things that were being done > here.
[snip] Yep... believe it or not, the original version of Ebisedian was more or less constructed on similar premises to Ygyde. Until I starting learning *real* linguistics from the list, and became acutely aware of my own myopic preconceptions. :-) T -- I am BOFH. Resistance is futile. Your network will be assimilated. -- darthaggie, K5

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