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Re: Re : Re: Translating from a conlang into a conlang

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 21, 1999, 19:05
"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:
> I've been told I got some in my bed too, but I don't believe that.
Aack! More homophones! :-) Yep, spring can also mean metal coils that can be compressed. Jeez! We've got all these thousands upon thousands of words, with pairs and triplets of synonyms, and yet we still insist on piling multiple meanings on poor little monosyllables like "spring", "bat", and the worst of them all, the dreaded "set". -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor