Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 26, 1999, 23:13 |
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Brian Betty wrote:
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> Yep. Whereas since English is so ubiquitous, it could use a little
> subversion. Hence my wordplay and borrowing. A real coup is to get a
> conlang word used in daily speech by people who don't know about conlangs -
> or who are of the look-down-your-nose-at-that-foolish-habit type ...
You mean like "dwarves"? If [I don't recall which of us posted] was right
in that Tolkien influenced common speech enough to effectuate a change
from dwarfs to dwarves. Not precicely conlang related, but pretty damn
close.
Padraic.
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> BB
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