Re: translation needed

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 melissap@ocp.org wrote:

> Unless he's trying to say that conlangers are
> stopping real languages from being studied and preserved because we take
> away resources, which is totally fallacious. Marc Okrand's inventing Klingon
> did not harm any "real-world" language and not inventing it wouldn't have
> helped one either. In fact the opposite is true, my interest in conlanging
> has forced me to learn a lot about foreign languages that I never would have
> known otherwise.
>
> Liss
*laughs*  I had this image of speakers of natural languages all over the
world running out of vowels because conlangers had used them all up!  I
can just hear them crying out in Spain:  "-y-d-m-!  Nstrs n pdms hblr!"
The french'll be screwed, but not as badly as Hawaiian.  Or should I say
HWN.

Really, such stupid people -- they remind me of Mr. Gradgrind and Mr.
McChoakumchild.