Re: Project: Contact!

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.)
>