Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tundra Slosek wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Matt Pearson wrote:
>
> "just seems a little extreme"... ummm...
>
> [...]
>
> I find little phrases like this to be a wonderful part of the only
> language I speak or write (speaking of which, what's a good second natlang
> to learn to break me of my assumptions that the "English way" is the only
> way?) It's hardly efficient (one could always argue that the word "g" in
> the conlang X means "just seems a little extreme"... that's certainly a
> more efficient way of expressing that idea), and certainly not terribly
> transparent (in that I suspect that a partially fluent listener might have
> a hard time with the contrast), but I still like it, yes I do.
or, for the matter, the expression contained above: "..not terribly
transparent.."  :)

Regards,
skrintha