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Re: CHAT: I introduce myself

From:Hawksinger <hawksinger@...>
Date:Saturday, October 3, 1998, 22:01
That Keenan crowd wrote:

> Oc is a highly agglutinating language which is an attempt at Speedtalk.(A > language that appeared in a short story by Robert A.Heinlein) I have had > to make considerable concessions so that the language can be pronounced > and easily understood. Rather than being a Speedtalk, Oc looks more like a > American Indian langage. I have a small lexicon for Oc because I have > spent the time assigning meaning to the phonemes that go into making the > words.( Phoneme may be the wrong word. They are two letter syllables, V.C. > or C.V. which are assigned the meaning of an English word. These are then
Duke, welcome aboard. I would love to hear more about Oc. Many of us here have tried to invent Speedtalk and it sounds like you are going through some of the same steps I went through with my language Nova.
> Glad to have found you > -Duke Keenan
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