Re: Minhyan & the goddess of conlangs
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 10:27 |
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Now that man deserves a DB! (Sorry - it's one of the beer ads on TV in NZ.)
A mynah from Babel 17 makes a lot of sense to me!
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:33, you wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:54:47 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:15:19PM -0400, Paul Bennett wrote:
> >> Hmmm, indeed. *thinks for a second* Why not a Norwegian Blue Parrot
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> (which
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> >> looks remarkably like a Blue Macaw)? It seems the perfect bird for the
> >> various types of discussion we have from time to time.
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> >Okay, I'll bite. Ahem.
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> >A Norwegian Blue, you say? Depicted pining for the fjords, perhaps?
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> >-Marcos
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> The *obvious* choice is a myna bird. Haven't y'all read _Babel 17_?
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> I
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