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Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, January 20, 2000, 1:35
Raymond Brown wrote:
> IMO you'd need to isolate your Latin-speaking community well before the > case system was collapsing - probably ought to be before the end of the BC > period. Maybe in the turmoil of the last century BC with all its civil > wars, some group, fed up with it all, upped & migrated to find the better > life, or a whole community got itself exiled and lost contact with the > later Roman world.
I was contemplating a rather silly idea of my own like that - a bunch of Romans came upon a freak wormhole, entered it, out of curiosity, then got cut off, isolated on a whole nother world. :-)
> >Oh well, > >midterms start tomorrow, and I'd better get to work!
Midterms already? -- 3 Wakalláf watyánivaf plal 273 http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor