Re: Lilipu: The Bonsai Language

In a message dated 2003:12:31 01:37:13 AM, vmed@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:48:02 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> [. . . ] I was translating the
>>Tao Te Ching into my newest conlang last night as test
>>of some grammatical principles. :)
>
>Indeed.  The _Tao Te Ching_ is a good testbed for conlang translations...
>I have done it for my other conlangs, Vling and Trangzhik.
    Arguably it has more of a wider _contrastive_ semantic range than the
Babel Text. And nicer imagery to boot...
    AND It is also way easier to deal with on a cultural level for those of
us not exactly (or entirely) fond of either highly-charged populistic,
monotheistic religions or highly-loaded/over-freighted
Eurocentric/Judeo-Christian
symbolism/(Pop) cultural iconism ["Jah versus Baby-lon 'n' Mam-mon, mon..."]
;)

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