Re: London Boink: minutes

Fabian writes:
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Highlights

Raptorese - a language spoken by velociraptors.

official conlang Teeshirt
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Some other, less on-topic (but still discussed on the list) ground was covered,
among the highlights for me were:

Foyles bookstore - the best I (an uneducated person) have been in
University? - Generally a good thing
Sapir-Whorf? - Yes, though there's problems with an agreeable definition
Indo-european origins - Black Sea flooding is interesting and probable
Altantean/Flood mythology - as above
Interlanguage Phonetics - and the pronounciation of Danish compared to English
11th C Beowulf and 5th C Diamond Sutra (the latter on CD) in the British Library
- like, wow, man! <G>
Concosmology and conlocation - Particularly the astronomy and physics of the
Demuan universe

Having mentioned Foyles, I have to give them a shameless plug: They've got every
linguistics book regularly mentioned on the list (that I recall), except one.  I
splashed out on Trasks Dictionary of Grammatical Terms, and as a result, my
Wenetaic grammar is being converted from home-grown gibberish into
commonly-accepted gibberish.  (I have to say it's the most difficult translation
task I've done to date <GGG>).  I may have some questions about adpositions and
the essive case (and possibly some of the more intricate variations of the
dative), if anyone feels up to the challenge.


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Pb


oh, and btw:
ringosnokyip - the-language.produced-by-you.towards-here.it (ringo.sno.kyi.p)
(A better translation would be of "is suitable here", but I'll have to work on
that one.)







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