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Re: GROUPLANG: optional features and case

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, October 19, 1998, 10:18
At 01:21 19/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Pablo Flores wrote: >> Or it could be something like "The Tongue of the Makers"... > >That would be good. Maybe "The Language of the Language-Makers", or >"The Superior Language". ;-) >
Looks a bit tolkienish! But Why not? We could invent a culture and being the gods of that culture! (when the language is finished, why not creating a sect? ... sorry, my humour is not very good).
>> Spanish has a related problem regarding the word "hue'sped", which >> means "host" but also "guest"! > >How do you disambiguate? >
In French we don't disambiguate (at least _I_ don't disambiguate). Only the context tells us what we mean.
>-- >"It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father >was hanged." - Irish proverb >http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files >ICQ: 18656696 >AOL: NikTailor > >
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