Re: English syllable structure
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 9:18 |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:33:54 -0500, Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
wrote:
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>But that reminds me of a conlang idea I had:
>A bunch of college students in the 1960's are taking a French class (using
>an obsolete textbook of course). The professor kicks the bucket or
>something, but the students continue to study on their own, without any
>help from actual speakers of French. Eventually they start a commune that
>everybody else forgets about where they speak their version of "French".
>To develop this I would have to get hold of that obsolete textbook and take
>care not to learn to much correct modern French.
And that reminds me of a half-forgotten project of mine. A bunch of Soviet
hippies are brought to a parallel universe by their crazy guru who pretends
to be an L1 speaker of English. The language they speak "there" is
originally the type of English one could learn in a countryside Soviet
school in the late 60's, then it develops into a kind of new creole.
Basilius
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