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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Schleicher's fable
- From: Philip Newton <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Schleicher's fable
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:15:52 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 22:54, Robyn Stewart <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
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