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Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, September 9, 1999, 2:33
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Of course, l'Abbe de l'Epee must have found inspiration > somewhere, but he invented all the structure of the FSL, so I think we > can call it a conlang.
Hmm, probably a mixture of what you said and what John said, then. I'd guess that it was probably based on homesigns. AFAIK, there's not much French-like grammar to it, which would, I'd think, be the case if it was totally invented. In fact, I'd think that he'd've attempted to make it a sort of "Exact Signed French". -- "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any thing till they were sure it would offend no body, there would be very little printed" - Benjamin Franklin http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ #: 18656696 AIM screen-name: NikTailor