Re: Favourite Language Group?
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 5, 2002, 2:34 |
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In a message dated 09/04/2002 01.27.04 PM, joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:
>What's everyone's favourite language group(s)?
Are pidgins and creoles a language group? 0_o?
I am rather fond of the Romance language group and the English language
group ;) IMHO two of the most beautiful "mutant" groups around AFAIK...
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Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist ;)
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
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poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.
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