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Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, August 16, 2003, 10:31
At 07:30 15.8.2003 -0700, Stone Gordonssen wrote:

>>I'm afraid not. When I was about 15 my father got the notion that >>Tolkien and conlanging weren't good for me -- something about them >>distracting me from "really important things" like school work! :-) > >Whereas my mother decided _the Lored of the Rings_ was Satanic, threw them >out, and forebade them. I, of course, read them elsewhere.
Well, most Swedes being rather secularized that isn't common here, but a friend of mine had parents who found Tolkien too -- Capitalist! Needles to say they were middle class Marxists, but at least they didn't force their son to throw the stuff away.
>>Although otherwise a very nice man he made me put everything >>related in a box in the basement. Of course I looked for that box >>while clearing out the house after my father's death. I found my >>Tolkien books in the same box as my childrens' books, but the >>other stuff was gone. > >Sorry. Had a similar experience when my own father died.
Well, compared to the loss of the man the loss of the papers was bearable at the time. /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Gaestan ~\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)