Re : Re: Long Languages
From: | From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html <lassailly@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 5, 1999, 17:09 |
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 05/05/99 15:03:33 , Dan a =E9crit :
[snip a very funny and wise plea for neverending languages]
<< So hang in there. Even long languages are beautiful!
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Dan Sulani >>
I think you're right. I can't think of anybody imperiled I could save by=20
shouting a Tunu word. And I can wield French properly so I'm not linguisticl=
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retarded I guess (as for fluentness in my conlang I must say it does not=20
"flow out" anymore now that I try to rationalize the vocabulary - "pana" use=
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to mean more than 5 different items such as "rotation", "time", "dizziness",=20
etc). Rtemmu grammar and phonology are very difficult for me although I thin=
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I got its "all-agent" system.=20
Mathias