Re: THEORY: Natural language change (was Re: Charlie and I)

> > Exactly.  The Royal Academy had long been trying to "ascertain" the
> > English language;
>
> What Royal Academy?  There's no Royal Academy for English.
Yikes!  I meant "Royal Society."  Didn't the French have a Royal
Academy,
making England and its Royal Society green with envy?  It was to the
Royal Society that Wilkins presented his Real Character and
Philosophical
Language, wasn't it?  Sorry. :-(


> > I guess I'm back!  Teonaht has had to be put on hold.
>
> Welcome back!  Have you started back up with Teonaht?
Nooo... I wish.  Now I have a number of academic committments and
deadlines.
But I swear that someday I'll finish the grammar and at least get the
second
Teach Yourself Teonaht up there.  But I WILL be giving my "Maligned Art"
paper a second time, this time to the Society for Utopian Studies,
meeting
in San Antonio this November.  Same thing: here's a great new listserv,
devoted to mostly non-utopian languages and look what we've done.
That's
my news.

Sally

> "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
I think you need to change your quote, Nik!  Either I've not been gone
very long, or you've had this up for a while!  <G>

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