Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence

Quoting Greg <greg.johnstons@...>:

> Relexes are only less than could be accomplished when they are using the
> grammar of one's native tongue.
Are you saying that if I relexed English, it would be as accomplished as could
be asked for? If so, I beg to differ; I can do much better, or at the very
least I want to believe so!

                                                      Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Roger Mills
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 5:44 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence
>
> Gary Shannon wrote:
>
> > In the final analysis it might be difficult to find a
> > conglang that is not a relex of SOME language, whether
> > Latin, English, or Urdu.  Is there really such a thing
> > as a novel grammar?
>
> I think many of us would say:  H.S.Teoh's Ebisedian (he hasn't been posting
> much lately)
>
> Sylvia Sotomayor's Kelen (all-noun, sort-of) doesn't IMO resemble any
> natlang
>

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