Re: World Lingos
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 28, 2000, 18:50 |
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Marcus Smith wrote:
> Raymond Brown wrote:
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> >Languages die very hard.
> To the contrary. Languages die very easily.
Perhaps we can say that languages with a substantial literary
tradition are more readily revivld. Revival of hiterhto unwritten
languages is not unheard of either: Menominee, e.g.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
"[O]n the whole I'd rather make love than shoot guns [...]"
--Eric Raymond