Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Phoneme winnowing continues


> Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
>
> > En réponse à Dirk Elzinga :
> >
> >
> > >Only a few companies now really pay careful attention to the
> > functional
> > >aspects of a fountain pen (Pelikan, Pilot, Namiki, maybe Parker),
> > while
> > >companies which once made outstanding pens now turn out expensive
> > crap
> > >(most notably Montblanc; I don't know anything about Cross, though I
> > >suspect them to be posers).
> >
> > I've been reading this thread with wonder: do you really mean that
> > fountain
> > pens are uncommon in America?!!!!! In France, not only they are
> > extremely
> > common, safe and cheap, but pupils are *obliged* to learn to write
> > with
> > fountain pens. All fountain pens we usually have are empty, and you
> > put
> > small plastic ink reserves in them to use them. All important things I
> > write I use a fountain pen for it. I've never been, since I've learned
> > to
> > write, without a fountain pen with me, and I don't have expensive ones.
> > The
> > cheapest ones are hardly more expensive than a ballpoint, and since
> > afterwards you only need to buy ink reserves, they prove to actually
> > be
> > cheaper in the long run :)) .
>
> I don't think I've ever owned a single fountain pen - I have dozens and
heaps
> of ballpoint ones. I've written with fountain pens a few times, tho';
possibly
> I ran across some very good ones, but I found them little harder to use
than a
> ballpoint.
>
> What I typically use for writing nowadays, tho', is a _stiftpenna_. I
dunno
> the English word - it's those plastic things with a thin graphite rod in.
> Would they class as "pencils"? I'm rarely to be found without one of
those.

Yeah, they're pencils.  Maybe mechanical pencils...

>                                                          Andreas
>

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