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Re: What to Call Non-Conlangers

From:Damian Yerrick <tepples@...>
Date:Friday, March 4, 2005, 21:58
"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. -- Damian

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