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Re: demuan identifiers re-visited

From:Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...>
Date:Monday, August 30, 1999, 6:32
Fabian wrote:
> > > It seems that we've got some ideas in common. Your list seems to > > resemble my list of "definite suffixes" for my New Personal Language. Do > > you want me to share? (I ask before, as it seems that my posts about my > > new project are so boring :) ). > > PLease do. I dont think it is that your posts are intrinsically boring, but > rather that it is hard for people to get interested in a lanmguage that > hasn't been named. name it and you may get a better response. It is a bit > hard to get involved with another "my new personal language". Let's face it; > every one of our languages was so named at one point. >
Oh, I know that very well, but I want a meaningful name for my language, so I need more vocabulary and more syntax before naming it. In fact, I think that I'll simply translate "New Personal Language" and make a compound with it. But for the moment, NPL will be its temporary name.
> OBbtw: Has anyone else noticed the similarity between Tolkien's Elfish > script and Arabic script? >
Of course! In fact, those two scripts are among my preferred ones. If only I could one day have so beautiful scripts for my languages...
> --- > Fabian > If a flying horse ye see, mock ye not if it stays up not.
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