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Re: update
- To: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Subject: Re: update
- From: andrew <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 17:01:20 +1200 (NZST)
- cc: "Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@clara.co.uk>, Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>, Andrew Smith <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>, Peter Skye <may.hawk@mindspring.com>, John Schilke <schilkej@ohsu.edu>, Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@vcn.bc.ca>, Celticonlang List <celticonlang@lists.colorado.edu>, Sally Caves <scaves@frontiernet.net>, Douglas Mosier <siringa@juno.com>, Martin Bertagnon <bertagnon@datamarkets.com.ar>
- In-Reply-To: <37A1FCBB.BA289C86@locke.ccil.org>
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> Geoff Eddy wrote:
>
> > Well, well, well. I go on holiday, and in my absence celticonlang gets
> > interesting again! Would anyone be interested in unravelling a
> > phonologial oddity I may have uncovered in Brithenig?
>
> Oh, no. The idea of reading about uncovered oddities just bores
> us silly, that's why we're on these lists. :-)
>
I'm interested in knowing what the phonological oddity is, and whether
it's a good thing or a bad thing for the language and might have to be
tidied up. I'm also interested in knowing where Geoff's original message
came from.
- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.