Latin a loglang? (was Re: Unambiguous languages (was: EU allumettes))
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 8, 2004, 21:55 |
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Hallo!
On Sat, 8 May 2004 16:44:08 -0400,
John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Ray Brown scripsit:
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> > Latin: tres homines ad duas deas honorandas idola fabricari desiderabant.
> > Latin: tres homines ad binas deas honorandas idola fabricari desiderabant.
> > Latin: terni homines ad duas deas honorandas idola fabricari desiderabant.
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> Brilliant. Maybe Latin is a loglang after all. :-)
Reminds me... I have just finished reading _Manifold: Space_
by Stephen Baxter (like most Baxter novels, vast in setting and timespan
and depressing in mood - lots of callous star-smashing aliens), in which
it is said that Latin was the most logical of all natlangs, and it is
hence used to communicate with an alien species.
Greetings,
Jörg.
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