🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't mean to intrude into this discussion, but I'm curious about
what Autymn has been doing with Latin and English. I don't think sci.chem
and the other science groups are the place to go into it, but maybe sci.lang
or humanities.classics would be a suitable venue. For that reason, I'm
cross posting this to those groups and deleting most of the science groups,
the last of which will be deleted after the thread moves to sci.lang
and humanities.classics.

As a purely linguistic exercise, no one seems to mind kids learning
pig latin, for example. So, I have no problem with Autymn's interest
trying to find replacements for words of Latin origin. I'd just like to
see more public discussion of the details about the method, so that it
can be explained to others who might like to try it, e.g. kids.

Also, I don't see any reason why the exercise should be confined to Latin.
One could try to find replacements in language A for words derived from
language B. Those replacements could be derived, in some sense, from
languages C,D,E,... (which might just be A, or not, or might be A at various
stages of its evolution). For example, suppose one wanted to get all of the
indo-european stuff out of English, according to Autymn's method. How would
that work and what would be left?

What is interesting is that Autymn isn't just trying to delete words of
Latin origin, but to develop some kind of rules for replacing them. That
seems like a legitimate language study activity, even if it doesn't actually
advance professional language studies.
-- 
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
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