Re: CHAT: enterprise
| From: | Cian Ross <cian@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 24, 2003, 23:59 |
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On Friday 24 January 2003 01:37 am, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> For example, "leibe", depending on
> which posture was used, could mean "difficult", but with other postures
> could be more "running down" or "age".
I believe that was one in a trilogy by Harry Harrison, starting with _West of
Eden_, spoken by a species of sapient, bipedal, half-aquatic dinosaurs (more
or less) who called themselves the Yilane`. It was a fascinatingly different
language--and the novels are worth a read in their own right.
Cian
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