At 5:22 pm +0000 19/6/00, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>Ray Brown wrote:
>
>><soap-box>
>>This is one reason that I, personally, do not like the idea of
>>part-of-speech notation in an conIAL; it seems to me that one is forcing a
>>particular speech pattern - essentially Latin-based - onto something I feel
>>would be better with the flexibility of English & Chinese.
>><end of soap-box>
>
>Like to see you write that.
Thanks :)
>This'd be utter blasphemy on a certain list
>we're acquainted with ;)
I know - I've been flamed for saying that. I guess the burning of heretics
still persists on that list.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
will always interfere with language.
[J.G. Hamann 1760]
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