> Hi, Sylvia! It's wonderful to see you back! Good luck on the Ke'len
> revisions!
>
> Sally
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sylvia Sotomayor" <kelen@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 9:26 PM
> Subject: Book Review & a comment on Kélen
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just finished reading a paperback by John McWhorter called The Power of
> > Babel. In it, he writes about the sheer variety & diversity of language
> > while
> > discussing dialects, language change, dialects, areal linguistics,
> > dialects,
> > pidgins, creoles, semi-creoles, dialects, social distinctions, formality
> > distinctions, written vs oral distinctions, and more about dialects. I
> > liked
> > it a lot.
> >
> > In reading this, my occasional stray thought that Kélen is actually a
> > creole
> > language between human (probably English, or something Western-European)
> > and
> > Terjemar-an (the planet) has solidified into fact. So, I can now begin
> > with
> > figuring out Kélen's antecedents. I'm fairly sure Terjemaran has tones,
> > too.
> > In a couple of years, when I have something solid enough to present
> > <grin>,
> > I'll let you know what it looks like.
> >
> > -Sylvia
> > --
> > Sylvia Sotomayor
> > sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
> > kelen@ix.netcom.com
> >
> > Kélen language info can be found at:
> >
http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html
> >
> > This post may contain the following:
> > á (a-acute) é (e-acute) í (i-acute)
> > ó (o-acute) ú (u-acute) ñ (n-tilde)
> >
> > áe ñarra anmárienne cí áe reharra anmárienne lá;