>From: Dan Seriff <microtonal@...>
>Reply-To: microtonal@SERICAP.COM
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: to translate or not
>Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:11:45 -0500
>
>Irina Rempt wrote:
>
> > As much as I like cilantro, I don't put it in vanilla
> > ice-cream.
>
>LOL! Thanks Irina, this got me a really good laugh! Although, I can
>imagine that cilantro ice cream might not be too bad, as long as you
>didn't go over the top with the cilantro. I've had basil ice cream,
>which was great, and of course we're all familiar with mint. Why not
>other herbs?
>
>Too bad I don't have an ice cream machine.
>
> > And I don't want to explain every time I talk about Valdyas or the
> > Valdyan language "of course I know I've made it all up", okay? I
> > thought it was accepted knowledge on this list that *all* languages
> > and cultures we talk about are made up.
>
>What?! No! Mungayöd is real! I was talking to a native speaker just the
>other day! Of course, how she got into my apartment, and why she was
>dressed like King George III is anyone's guess.
>
>Time for my pills.
>
>--
>Daniel Seriff
>microtonal@sericap.com
>
http://members.tripod.com/microtonal
>
>Futharusào li utsoto wi pæthong, raskèsào lang li!
>Si me iterum insanum appelles, oculum alterum tuum edem.