"Ray Brown" <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> [Re: the Clangers]
> Are they mice? They're certainly pink. But tho their language is indeed
> tonal, it doesn't sound like Morse Code - more like Solresol :)
Now that I think about it, the closest comparison would be Silbo
and other whistle languages. Search the list's archives. But would
raising a child with Silbo as L1 be even more child-abusive than
raising a child with a conlang as L1?
> But, if you asked most people what the opposite of
> 'construct' is, they'd probably answer 'destroy'. So the opposite of a
> language constructor, is arguably a 'language destroyer' - someone who
> wants the whole word to speak English :)
Think of the former policies toward Native American languages
in the United States, where speaking Injun in school was a
punishable offense.
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Damian