Betreft: Re: Ah-ha! New computer, YANC and fluency

>>> Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> 04/12 10:42  >>>
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:

> Has anyone ever got in their head to become fluent in a dead
> language?  (Latin and Sanskrit of course don't count!  Neither do already
> resurrected languages like Hebrew.)
>
A friend of mine, Martijn Spruit, once tried to become fluent in
Hittite , and I've tried my hand at Classical Chinese (but that
was far too difficult).


>>>
And of course there are attempts by various people to use
Gothic (making neologisms on the way)

Rob