Re: CHAT De Bello Gaelico

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> It is time to confess.  Prior to publishing my Kash website for all
> the
> world to see, I tried to interest the Star Trek people, but received
> only
> vague replies mentioning their Legal Dept., and was told to cease
> hanging
> around their Cafeteria.  Next I approached our Defense Dept., who
> seemed
> interested until they learned of my advanced age, and concluded I was
> not
> likely to live long enough to see the conclusion of the War on Evil;
> my
> being gay was seen, somehow, as a disadvantage, too. So we never got
> around
> to negotiating a price-- even though I was prepared to go as low as
> 0.001%
> of our Defense budget......
>
Knowing the United States, I suppose this amount approaches the yearly salary
of Bill Gates? ;)))

> Mr. bin Laden (so difficult to reach him!) politely declined my offer
> as
> well, stating that his organization already considered Arabic
> sufficiently
> cryptic for their purposes.
>
Hehe, I've always thought that conlangers would not be very welcome by Moslim
Fundamentalists. After all, the Arabic language is considered sacred by them.

> Incidentally, I thought it would have been amusing if Christophe had
> included a few well-chosen words in romanized Maggel in his post.
> _That_
> would have occasioned some head-scratching in Dublin...."The
> pronunciation
> is perfectly clear, but......."   ;-))))))))))
>
LOL I didn't think about that :))) . Although I'm pretty sure even a specialist
in the traditional Irish orthography will have problems with Maggel's
orthography :))) .

Christophe.

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