[92973] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Schleicher's fable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Wed Apr 25 08:16:31 2012
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120424133351.0446a1d0@flyingstart.ca>
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:15:52 +0200
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 22:54, Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> Yeah, I don't get it in English either. The sheep already being shorn,
> clearly knows the way it works and doesn't seem to be sufficiently resentful
> of the process to have spent any thought on it, yet when the horses point
> out some equality in the situation instead of using that to bolster whatever
> argument the sheep was putting forward about enslavement by humans, he takes
> off, like this was new or contradictory information.
Schleicher's idea was to write a story in Proto-Indo-European, using
the words that could be plausibly reconstructed that far back. With
such a limited vocabulary at his disposal, the narrative quality had
to take a back seat, I suppose.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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