Re: Hey, what Su problem?
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 8, 2001, 19:50 |
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Am 08.12.01, Roger Mills yscrifef:
> yawuri -Imperative-
> >Great idea, like a language embargo, right? The pitfall is that we
> >won't be able to understand each other; most of us don't know how to
> >speak others' conlangs...
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> orandi lunda yakotasa tekangaya kakaya Roman Jakobson , kotani, =çasakipo=
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> As the famous Prof. Roman Jakobson once said, "Try!"
Si. Mas, pothemos nous poner-lis ais angloparladeors yen dransduczien.
[Ey mi doprovu sempeor le parlar di vustres choncantes - ces
choncantes ny Textus Roman! - mays esperam me compruinner il matham y
chantes Roman.]
Indeed, we can try! We can also give a quick and dirty translations;
or even full interlinears. As far as reading and understanding others'
conlangs, I've _always_ made attempts at reading your conlang texts
(in plain Latin text!), though I can only hope to understand the
Romance ones easily.
Far from just linguistically embargonating Su, we can all use the
opportunity to work our collective conlinguistic muscles on realworld
topics. While the embargo has a certain appeal, it would become a bit
tedious to just read conlang texts - and I'm sure I include you all
reading Kerno texts in this!
Padraic.
--
Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.
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