Re: Immediate future tense
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 7, 1998, 6:36 |
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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.
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"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)
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