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

Joe wrote:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> >
> >
> >>On 3/1/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Please!  You have prejudices against auxlangers, ok, but this does not
> >>>mean we want to risk a flamewar here.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Ahm.  I don't mean to be rude, but you seem to have made a grammatical
> >>error here, and as a non-native English speaker, I thought you might
> >>appreciate a correction.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I do! :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >>The verb "to have prejudices" is quite irregular, and in fact only
> >>resembles its infinitive in the third person: "he has prejudices".
> >>The second person form is "you have biases".
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Really?  That's a funny irregularity.  That was a translato then. :-)
> >
> >
>
> I think he's joking.  Maybe.
Yas......I'm reminded of S.I. Hayakawa's "Language in Thought and Action",
where, for fun, he rang similar changes on various verbs, on the order of

    I...wasn't aware of that
    You...are uninformed
    he...is stupid

    I...am a gourmet
    you...are a gourmand
    he...is a pig

etc. etc. :-))))))))))
>

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