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Thievin'Magpie English & _other_ Languages Re: Stress marking (was: Re: CONLA

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 18, 2000, 22:51
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Talking of thieving Magpie languages,
Hmm, for some reason this statement bugs me :). I guess i think borrowing is cool, and people who try to keep languages "pure" are a bit snobby (just my humble opinion of course ;)). (Copious emoticons to mean that i am not trying to get into an argument here, so dont start ;))
>I am already sketchin' out a possible >2nd ConLang... polyglot lexicon (a la Rick Harrison's Zengo project), >ASL-like topic-comment syntax.
Anyway, cool idea. Hope to see more