Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:01:58 +0100, "Raymond A. Brown"
<raybrown@...> wrote:

>Give me a natlang I've not met before & I'll spend hours & hours on it =
just
>for the fun it.  If someone, e.g. gave me an Innuit grammar I'd devour
>greedily.  I'd not care a damn whether I ever met an Innuit or found
>anything to read - those would be bonuses.  I just love finding out =
about
>and discovering languages for their own sake.
>
>Weird, I guess - but then don't most people think that about conlangers =
?    :)
>
>Ray.
What's weirder is that I still collect Teach Yourself books and similar
language texts even though I know I'll never have the time to learn all
these languages. I must have nearly 40 languages by now, and I'm fluent =
in
none of them! Even when I was trying to learn them, I rarely got past the
seventh chapter in any of those books. Now I don't have time to learn =
even
one language.

I'm not familiar with any books on Inuit grammar, but if you want to see =
a
sample of Inuktitut, go to http://www.nunavut.com/ and download the =
Nunacom
font.

--
languages of Kolagia---> =
+---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>---
      Thryomanes        /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print =
any
   (Herman Miller)     / thing till they were sure it would offend no =
body,
   moc.oi @ rellimh <-/  there would be very little printed." -Ben =
Franklin