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Re: Language superiority, improvement, etc.

From:R. Skrintha <srik@...>
Date:Friday, October 16, 1998, 6:11
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