Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 27, 2003, 0:23 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
> Sally Caves scripsit:
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> > To instruct and to delight. Philip Sydney, I believe, quoting Horace, I
> > believe, quoting Plato, I believe.
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> Right. Which BTW is the origin of the now much abused phrase "sweetness
> and light": the "light" is in the sense of "enlightenment".
Thank GOD someone finally explained that to me!! I've been given that
nomenclature usually sarcastically: Miss "sweetness and light"--meaning that
I had to be happy-go-lucky, and if I wasn't, I ought to be.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
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