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From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>
> Yaguello is French. That, I think, is sufficient explanation for
> everything. If it is said in French, then it matters not what
> is said, but only that it is said well and at great length.
Touche'. :)
> > > Was her sampling narrow by circumstance? by design/intent?
> >
> > I think by breezy carelessness and contempt for her subject. The same
> > breeziness that allows her to say that the typical auxlanger has a
pointy
> > beard and wire-rimmed glasses. The same cutesiness that allows her to
> > entitle her chapters "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "In Defence of
Natural
> > Languages" (as though "natural languages are in danger"). The whole
book is
> > like that
> >
> > Sally Caves
> > scaves@frontiernet.net
> > Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo
> > "My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
> >
> >
>