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Re: My new conlang

From:Joe Hill <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, December 9, 2001, 19:35
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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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