Re: Forget it

FFlores <fflores@...> wrote:

>I just came up with a very useful word in Draseliq,
>_nyn_, of which an equivalent would be most useful
>in e-mail... It derives from an ancient root NUTAN
>meaning "forget, not consider, ignore". Modern
>Draseliq change this to a pejorative sense, "despise",
>but also inherited _nyn_, an interjection/adverb
>whose primary function is to show that a question
>is rhetorical.
>
It'd be interesting if there were two question particles. One
serious, the other rhetorical. Or perhaps, that's what you had in
mind?


>Now, the smiley is a nice invention in e-mail, but
>it still doesn't tell you to ignore a question, it
>only makes it not serious. Shouldn't there be a
>special emoticon for "forget it, just kidding"?
><not rhetorical>
How about:

8~

Unfortunately, not all computers recognize the thorne as a valid
letter.

-kristian- 8-)