Re: My new conlang

----- Original Message -----
From: "Padraic Brown" <agricola@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: My new conlang


> Am 09.12.01, Nik Taylor yscrifef:
>
> > Padraic Brown wrote:
> > > > D'oh. I with my ignorance of languages thouht I was totally
original. :-)
> > >
> > > Not a problem! It's one conceit we all lose pretty quickly
> > > around here.
> >
> > I dunno.  It depends on what you mean by "original".
>
> Totally new feature never used in any other language in history.
> (I don't count alien languages that use apparatus that humans
> don't have, etc. as that's too easy.)
>
> > I'd say that if
> > you came up with an idea on your own, without any outside influence,
> > that counts as original.  Even if it happens that someone else came up
> > with the same idea.
>
> Hey, I'm not saying it's not clever! It's just not "original".
>
> Padraic.
> --
> Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.
Meanwhile, you can tell me what you think about the Babel transltion.

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