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Re: Immediate future tense

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 7, 1998, 6:36
Herman Miller wrote:
> Interesting analogy; I suppose that on that scale, most of my languages > would be tents; adequate for the purpose, but barely. Until recently, only > Olaetyan would have qualified as a "house". It's only in the last few years > that I've concentrated on longer projects, resulting in better and more > interesting languages, but fewer of them.
I still prefer Sally Caves' city analogy. By that, I think, most of us have a collection of huts, maybe a small village, while real languages are bustling metropolises. -- "It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will." - "Lord Leto II" (Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert) http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ ICQ #: 18656696 AOL screen-name: NikTailor