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Re: A question

From:Rik Roots <rikroots@...>
Date:Friday, June 1, 2001, 2:22
> Of course it's ok - if you are satisfied with it. It's just that a lot > of conlangers really like getting deeper and deeper into linguistics, > learning a lot as we go on. A lot of people even go and study linguistics > at a university, at least partly because of conlanging. Without knowledge > of linguistics and languages, most conlangs are simply English with all the > words replaced with funny sequences of letters and apostrophs (or any other > language you happen to know - my first language was based on French). Anyway, > a little learning never hurt. >
I think I resent this assertion. :-> Rik, currently unencumbered with an advanced education, but hoping to cure this malaise in the near-to-mid future.
> But if you will let us have as many conversations that feature linguistic > terminology, we won't berate you when you design a grammatical structure > without word-formation or sentence-formation. > > > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org >