Re: Greenberg's universals for SVO languages & Caos Pidginruff-sketch
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 10, 2000, 22:05 |
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 04:04:12PM -0400, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> :-) Well, English was a very minor language in 1500, and now it's a
> major world language. Who knows? Maybe some small country (like, say,
> Finland or Romania) today will lead the colonization of Space, and thus
> their lang will be a major Solar language. :-)
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Or maybe an obsessive conlanger from among us will spear-head the
colonization of Space, and start coining new terminology using his/her own
artlang, which then catches on, gets pidginized with whatever other
language is dominant at the time, and so an artlang becomes a dominant
language...
Hmmm.... ;-)
T