Re: USAGE: Dutch v or f (was: Grimm's Law)

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:16:14 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> When Calvin (of _Calvin and Hobbes_) is asked to explain Newton's
> First Law in his own words, he writes "Yakka foob mog.  Grug
> pubbawup
> zink wattoom gazork.  Chumble spuzz."  But most people are not so
> quick to make up "their own words".
> --
> John Cowan <jcowan@...>
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Hmm... searching through the web, i found:

Newton's First Law is:
"An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to
stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted
upon by an unbalanced force."
Alternately rendered as:
"The behavior of all objects can be described by saying that objects tend
to 'keep on doing what they're doing'."

Assuming that Calvin's "own words" are some kind of conlang, i wonder how
they could be analyzed to be saying one of the renderings of Newton's
First Law.  :-)

I also wonder if the writer of Calvin and Hobbes would mind if i took
some of Calvin's words for my own conlangs :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "...and hard as the devil..."