Re: Project: Contact!

--- 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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