Re: Hebrew and Conlangs

From: "Eamon Graham" <robertg@...>

| > the thing that interested me, was that if his thesis was accurate,
Ivrit/Modern
| > Hebrew would then be the world's first conlang to achieve the status
of an
| > official spoken language.
|
| I believe Ivar Aasen's Nynorsk is already first (though I may have
| my chronology wrong).  I believe that what he - a self-taught,
| amateur linguist - did was no different than what we do when we work
| with a posteriori languages, except he had a different purpose in
| mind.  But I agree with you that Modern Hebrew must be a conlang of

Self-taught amateur linguist -- that's ME! Anyway.

Maybe they're not first, but I'd also mention Modern Latin, Modern
Standard Arabic, and maybe Modern Sanskrit. And my secret desire to
speak Modern Sumerian.

| Do you know where I can get a set of those asbestos underpants?

Wouldn't they itch? And imagine a wedgie...

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