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Re: "i" (was: INTERSYSTEMAL CONLANG)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 17:08
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:07:23 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@...>
writes:
> =?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit: > > That sounds plausible enough, but it still doesn't explain to me > why I/i have > > never seen it happening in other languages with single-letter > words, including > > "i" (in most Slavonic language the equivalent of "and").
> I don't know. Perhaps they had learned different and less > illegible > handwriting styles? > -- > John Cowan <jcowan@...>
- Could the Spanish conjunction "y" (as in, instead of "i") be an example of this? -Stephen (Steg) "el chico está tocando la guitarra."