Re: Multilingual translation exercise, part 1

Greetings all. Finished my work on Luiseño reduplication (for the
time being; it needs polishing so I can get it published),
so I can get back to the list.

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Christopher B Wright scripsit:
>
> > I take it that you meant us to post conlang translations. Right? I didn't
> > manage it all, but I did what I could in the time I gave myself.
>
> Yes, absolutely.  This is the Conlang list, though sometimes we forget
> and it becomes the Friends-Who-Conlang list: this is both good and bad.
> Good, because it improves social cohesion; bad, because it creates a
> lot of traffic, as if we didn't have enough traffic already.
All very true, but I think a lot of the problem could be alleviated
if people would be more cognizant of the tag filtering-feature.  If
all the chatty stuff were marked "CHAT:", then those who aren't
interested would only have to make sure they set themselves not to
receive things marked "CHAT:". (I am probably being naive about
human nature here, though.)

Considering how much prejudice many of us have experienced from
non-Conlangers, I'd be wary of doing anything that lessens the
Friends-Who-Conlang aspect.  (Speaking of prejudice, does anyone
know of any actual political repression of conlangers besides that
of Stalin and Hitler against Esperantists?)

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