Re: Wow!  I should look in more often....
Saul Epstein 
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:53:34 -0600

From: Joel Peter Anderson <joela*nts,umn,edu>
Date: Thursday, December 04, 1997 11:41 PM

>Having been immersed in lots of stuff (trip to DisneyWorld, teaching an
>elementary school class on constructed languages, and .. oh, work) I
>haven't stopped by here often.  All I can say is WOW!

Glad you like.

>I really look forward to the extended vocabulary, and would especially
>like to get words as fast as possible

As would we, I'm sure. For good or ill, we're taking what may seem a
comparatively stodgy approach to vocabulary expansion. Other than Rob's
creation of temporal deixis terms and two coinages on my part, we haven't
done any and instead focussed on stating the rules that govern words. Once
we get past a certain point with that, our partly automated process should
verily spew words.

> - I want UTA to be up to speed [BTW
>what is th'thay?  The poem translated fine with UTA, except for that
>one....]

It translates roughly as "myself." I hope that this is a typo, as it was
previously spelled "th'thya." Etymologically, it looks like "thya" is a word
for "self," and that "th'" (meaning "I") is a truncated derivative thereof.
If so, it marks our second example of ' representing historical deletion,
the first being the infamous "whl'q'n."

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from Saul Epstein
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http://www,johnco,cc,ks,us/~sepstein
"Surak ow'pha:per the's'hi the's'cha'; the's'pha:dzhar the's'hi surakecha'."
                                            -- K'dvarin Ursw~l'at