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Re: Artlangers vs. auxlangers (was Re: Tell your conlang story!)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2006, 23:11
Hi!

"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> Oy. It was indeed a joke. I was trying to obliquely make the point > that directly calling someone "prejudiced" is somewhat rude (whatever > the facts of the case), hence the softening to "biased" in the second > person. The "conjugation" was completely of my own devising.
I read your correction in exactly that way -- and considered it a translation mistake, since it's maximally quite direct in German, but not rude (at least in my judgement). **Henrik -- Relay 13 is still running despite a choking relay list: http://www.conlang.info/relay/relay13.html