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Re: some questions

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, January 12, 2004, 18:06
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:36:16PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>: > > Anyway, I never write diaries. And as far as my notes are concerned, there's > > nothing secret about them. > > You've got all the wrong mentality. If you had the proper police state > mindset, you wouldn't ask "is there any reason to keep this secret?", but "is > there any reason not to keep this secret?". :)
Hah! Good one. Of course, the real answer is "yes, and that reason is that it's more convenient not to keep it secret." :) I like the idea of the Secret Police going through a conlanger's notes. "Nobody would spend all this time making up a language that nobody will speak! We've got to find out what they were REALLY working on!!" :) -Mark