wow. ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Jay Newman" To: Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [OT:] Difference between Its and It's > > > > > I've studied over 12 human languages, and found *none* of them > > > > > "straightforward and coherent" in grammer. > > > > Karkar-Yuri is pretty good. > > 1,300 odd speakers. No known relationships to any other language (!) > > I was thinking of a similar situation. A "pure" language, with no > outside interference might be more self-consistent. > > > It helps to evolve the language with no written rules at all (indeed, no > > writing of any sort) first, and then create an alphabet, grammar and all the > > accoutrements to match what you find. > > Like Welsh? An English monk created the written form of the language, > putting the Welsh sounds to the roman alphabet. It was not a good match. > -- > D. Jay Newman ! > jay@sprucegrove.com ! Xander: Giles, don't make cave-slayer unhappy. > http://enerd.ws/robots/ ! > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.551 / Virus Database: 343 - Release Date: 12/11/2003 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads