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Re: Question about Neo-Dalmatian

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Sunday, September 8, 2002, 17:56
 --- Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> > How many conlangs called "Neo-Dalmatian" are there? Most of us probably > > know Ferko's language on http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6502/ ;
Sorry, the semicolon at the end should be omitted, of course.
> This is correct. This is the current and only existing Neo-Dalmatian > language. However the website you show is the last remnants of the "old" > Neo-Dalmatian. The current one is at http://www.geocities.com/dalmatesku/
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> So is this, or shall I say, so *was* this. Everything to do with this > language has been destroyed, or so I thought. Julius Liptak was a pen name > of mine; Laci Kovacs was a friend of mine whose computer I was using at > the time. [...] The geocities link you mentioned (/parhtenon/6502) is the > only thing you'll find on the old one anymore besides the numbers.
Are you aware of the fact that a lot of links point in that direction? A lot more than to the newer one, it seems...
> The old one was a failed reconstruction, failed because of insuffiecient > data, and I abandoned it. A few years later I began the new one, as a > (more) purely constructed language.
Is the name "Neo-Dalmatian" still valid? Or is it currently just "Dalmatian" or "Dalmatesku"? Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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