Re: Tho (was: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences))

David Peterson wrote:

> In a message dated 4/15/01 9:23:45 PM, Barry_Garcia@MONTEREY.EDU
> writes:
>
> << Why should it bother you (david peterson) so
> much if you can understand what's being said?  >>
>
> Actually, I think my main point (which, for some reason,
> I didn't state) is that often times I have no clue what's
> being said.  I don't want to have to keep a hand dictionary
> of your accepted acronyms just to understand an e-mail.
If an experience from a non-native English speaker counts to you, I do
not usually use a dictionary for reading and I am sturnborn enough not
to keep asking what every unknown word, abreviation or acronym means.

Still I have been able to understand most of what is being said and I
keep learning.  This is the way you and I adquired language for the fist
time, for instance.

For example, for long time I understood what IMO meaned (besides
"International Mathematics Olympiads", which was the first use I knew of
that three letter acronym or TLA for short) even if I was not sure what
those letters stood for (my candidates: "I Must Observe", "In My
Opinion").

In other forums I have peeked out that GOP is the United States of
America Republican Party, even if I still have no clue what the letters
individually mean.

ObConlang (this means: Obligatory Constructed Language related comment,
since this thread seems slightly off-topic):
As observed there are two kind of abrevations/acronyms: those used in
the spoken language and those used only when writting.  In formally
written English, even accepted spoken abreviations like "don't" must not
be written, but some other abreviations, like "e.g." are accepted even
if never used spoken.
Well: what is the "commonly accepted" situation in our conlangs?

ObFutlang (futlang for future language development):
Is there anyone using /ajmo/ or some similar expresion when spoken as a
new modal adverb meaning "this is what I think"?  Anybody thinks it
would eventually become a word?

-- Carlos Th
    comming back from a big period of abstinence to the list.

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