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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:05:53 GMT
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In article <3s5fqc$jt1@medici.trl.OZ.AU> jbm@newsserver.trl.oz.au (Jacques Guy) writes:
>[...] if an artificial language had a chance to get anywhere (and I
>do not believe it has), I would pick Quenya or Sindarin.  Since there
>is not much vocabulary that can be pieced together from Tolkien's
>novels, its vocabulary is still open to proper design.

The hell it is!  There is not much Elamite vocabulary that can be
pieced together from the available texts either.  Is Elamite also
`still open to proper design'?

>Of course I am talking through my hat. Neither Quenya nor Sindarin
>(both modelled after Finnish, by the way) have any chance.

You're right about the hat.  Sindarin has nothing to do with Finnish;
it is modelled after Welsh.

-- 
`I'll gie ye a purple jaiket [...] an mebbe I'll make ye prime meenister.'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,   Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
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