Re: Ugly Klingon was Re: PHONO: lateral plosive

en mem0 2003:03:26 10:28:34 g0zen, andjo@FREE.FR graeffii:

>> >Does "Concrete" here refer to the material?
>
>>     Nope. Concrete = Visual.
>
>Ah. "Constructivist" and "concrete" made me think "Soviet Union"; concrete
>is, weirdly enough, one of the few building materials I associate with a
>particular country.
    There's a lexico-semantic conlang idea lurkin' there...

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