Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Tristan McLeay :
>
>> So in other words they're like women: totally evil but absolutely
>> necessary?[1]
>
> LOL. Actually I've never found them evil. They are pretty simple
> actually.
Well, maybe the seem evil just because square roots are pretty evil. How
does one work out what the square root a non-square is?

>> Been cursing science a lot, have you? or just cursing in a scientific
>> way? :P
>
> Both actually ;))) .
:)

>> Wow. I'm impressed. I'd asked this question to a few people, but no-one
>> could answer it (the best I'd got was from my father: 'something to do
>> with trigonometry'
>
> Not far :)) .
True, but not very detailed :)

>>  I think (he used to be a mechanical engineer)). I
>> hadn't really asked anyone who would really know, though, I don't think.
>
> Well, it may be that in France we learn complex numbers quite early (last
> year of high school) so we use them more than the rest of the world?
I could've learnt them in the last year of high school (year 12) had I
done Specialist Maths (the hardest one), but I did Methods. In
retrospect, I should've done Spesh; but at the end of year 10 when
chosing what subjects I should do in year 11, I chose to do Methods
because, though I didn't like Maths, and wasn't particularly good at it,
it's a good idea to do Methods to keep your options open. Sometime
during Year 11, I became better at Maths again (for which I'm indebted
to Mr Bedier, the word's greatest Maths teacher), and I've only been
getting better since, but there's a Year 11 pre-req for Specialist. What
a complicated tale...

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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