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Re: News from the Island of Kalu

From:Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...>
Date:Friday, June 16, 2006, 13:01
On 6/16/06, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> Za eyani! Andin kisa da rayse. > > A devastating eruption of the mighty volcano A'Tuin, > named for the legendary hero of the Kalusan people, > has destroyed much of the Great Library at Kalumani, > once the treasured respository of nearly 1800 Kalusa > sentences. Of this vast linguistic storehouse a scant > 700 sentences survived the destruction. > > Now the few surviving Kalusans struggle to rebuild > what was lost of their unique language. It is hoped > that out of the ashes a greater, more expressive > Kalusa will rise like the mighty Phoenix. > > Will Kalusa become an extinct conlang, or will it > survive and grow? Only time will tell. Witness history > in the making at http://kalusa.fiziwig.com > > (This message brought to you by the Kalusan Ministry > of Linguistics.) > > --gary >
Grim news indeed. Or is it? Perhaps A'Tuin the Awesome was discriminating in the sentences it destroyed? --larry the lowercased