>From: Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
>Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 14:03:28 -0500
>
>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.)
Are there any natlangs that have no transitive verbs? And treat trills and
clicks as alophones? And use whistles as vowels? I thought I was being
rather original, but who knows.
Adam the weird
>
> > 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.
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