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Re: CHAT: LEGO and co. (was: Re: history of conlanging (aka Conlang influences,aka Lest darkness fall))

From:Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 8:36
andrew wrote:
> > Am 11/23 08:35 Grandsire, C.A. yscrifef: > > > Oh I see! Amazing this parallelism. I remember that my first interest > > in languages arose when I tried to read the list of ingredients on food > > boxes and the notices in other languages than French and trying to > > compare (I still do!). Or maybe it was just a symptom that I was already > > interested in languages :) . > > > Done that too. Have you noticed that they are not quite inter-linear? > Just a slight difference in the structure of other languages. >
Of course! I used generally the numbers to have points of reference and I was always interested in the fact that often they had different relative places. I think that partly rose my interest in languages :) .
> - andrew. > -- > Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz > > "Death is an evil; the gods have so judged it; > had it been good, they would die." > - Sappho of Lesbos.
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