Random |mormon| :-) (was: my proposals for a philosophical language)

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:01:45 -0800 Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
<lloannna@...> writes:
> Anyway, enough of my rantings.  I strongly suggest that you consider
> why,
> precisely, so many things have proper names that are more or less
> universally known (e.g., the word "Mormon" is translated only in the
> sense
> that we modify it grammatically, so that, for example, the Russian
> Book of
> Mormon is "Kniga Mormona")  There's absolutely no reason to delete
> words
> that are easy to say, have a meaning that resonates OR that is
> distinct and
> not shared by anything else (as an LDS church member I'm rather
> curious as
> to whether "mormon" has a meaning outside of our context in other
> languages).
> Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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You do realize, don't you, that just by saying that you're begging
someone to put the word "mormon" into their conlang as something
completely random?  Like 'carrot' or 'jumping jacks'? :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "...but i can't make love to you
  because you're fourteen..."
     ~ 'fourteen' by the vandals

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