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Re: Project: Contact!

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Saturday, July 22, 2006, 4:32
I wonder if anyone ever went to Greece, didn't know Greek except the
alphabet and tried to pass English words off as Greek like this:

ενγλιση ωορδς ιν θε γρεεκ αλφαβετ.

If they did I sure wonder what the people they spoke (or wrote, more
likely) to thought of them.

2006/7/22, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:
> > 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.) >