Re: Using cats for practice

[Andrew Smith <hobbit@MAIL.EARTHLIGHT.CO.NZ>]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, James Campbell wrote:

> Hïlad,
> 
> I am coming to the opinion that a good way to practise speaking one's
> conlang is to use it when talking to the cat. Such conversations have a
> number of benefits:
> 
> I wonder whether any other listmembers do something similar...
> 
Normally my conversation with Fremen, my cat, consists of one sentence in
Brithenig: Ke gos es-sa fal teg? "What's wrong with you?"  If she is
talking to me, it means she wants something.  It does give me the
opportunity to practise pronunciation since Brithenig stresses the final
syllable.  Sometimes when I fill her bowl with food I ask her: Es-a fyl?
"Is that better?"  Conversations with pets are limited because they speak
their own conlangs but it can be helpful with pronunciation and
word-order.

- andrew.

Andrew Smith, Intheologus 			hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Life is short, so am I!

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