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Re: Project: Contact!

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Saturday, July 22, 2006, 4:26
--- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:

> So, a kind of conlang "pidgin," eh? >
Exactly! OT: When I took Latin back in high school, circa 1960, I thought it would be fun to make an English/Latin pidgin. The backstory was a large band of English speaking time travelers who find themselves trapped in the Roman empire, and who adopt a lot of Latin vocabulary, but with English grammar. (Or alternately, they apply Latin grammar to English vocabulary.) I always thought that would be fun, but I've never done anything with the idea. (It would probably just end up being Lingua Sistemfrater anyway.) --gary
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...> > To: <CONLANG@...> > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:28 PM > Subject: Project: Contact! > > > > Here's a fun game: > > > > Two people who each have their own distinct > conlang > > get together and devise a contact language using > > elements of both conlangs, such that native > speakers > > of the two conlangs can communicate with each > other in > > a basic way. > > >

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