Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
>
> > En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
> >
> >
> > >We've got the most blond(e)s, so we get to define it!
> >
> > I disagree on that. Since you've got mostly blond(e)s, you lack the
> > comparative knowledge that would allow you to define what "blond" means.
> > The result is that you apply "blond" only for what is a subset of the
> > correct "blond". We, on the other hand, have all the palette of hair
> > colours you can imagine, and as such are better at defining them.
>
> Said "most", not "mostly"! By any reasonable definition (ie, mine) blond(e)s
> are a clear minority here, and while really dark hair colours used to be
> rare
> up there, thanks to immigration in recent decades they aren't any longer.
Interesting. Both "here" and "there" are refering to Sweden here - I must've
changed reference frame in mid-sentence! Unfortunately, English deictics
aren't Lorentz scalars*.

* Some German dialects', however, reputedly are. I'm told some varieties of
Bavarian cannot render the distinctions between English "here" vs "there"
and "this" vs "that".

                                                        Andreas