Re: CHAT Graeca sine flexione (was: Greek plosives)
| From: | Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 3, 2006, 4:24 |
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on 2/2/06 8:52 PM, R A Brown at ray@CAROLANDRAY.PLUS.COM wrote:
> taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> [snip]
>> Graeca sine flexione, now that's a language that needs to be made!
>> Any takers?
EEK! Eh?, Graeca sine flexione sounds bit too much like Glosa, the
auxlang... then again Glosa's roots are about 1/3 Latin.
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