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Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, January 24, 2004, 18:29
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