Re: Most developed conlang
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 27, 2007, 0:41 |
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On 4/26/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Mark J. Reed writes:
> >...
> > But "enigmatical" just comes off as intentionally-comical Old West-speak.
>
> Well, well -- so I, L2 speaker of English, have a long way to go to
> understand the language's nuances...
It sounds archaic to me, but not Old-West archaic -- maybe
19th-century/early 20th-century British. At least I associate
"poetical" and some other words of that form with G.K. Chesterton
and other Brits of the same period.
--
Jim Henry
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