Re: some questions
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 12, 2004, 18:06 |
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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.
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> 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