Re: Esperantist lies (Re: Learning a language)
From: Rex F. May (rex.may_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/05/04
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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:23:39 GMT
in article yyrjoemzdgcg.fsf@pc156.maths.bris.ac.uk, Des Small at
des.small@bristol.ac.uk wrote on 7/1/04 7:08 AM:
> "Relexed" means "relexified" which means keeping the same grammar, but
> changing all the words. Immigrants to, say, the USA often end up
> relexifying their native languages with English to a greater or lesser
> extent, for example, but you have here stumbled across one of our
> unrepentantly off-topic conlangers: persons who make up languages for
> their own amusement (which is unobjectionable), and try to persuade
> others to use them (which is stupid and doomed), and all too often do
> these things here (which is annoying).
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