Re: VMs: Voynichese as an Abugida

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

The notion of a language game seems interesting to me; here is a paper on this issue.

 

Cheers,

 

Jean

 

http://www.california.com/~rathbone/word.htm

 

P.S. Nick are you thinking of an academy in Florence 's Quattrocento?

Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> At 10:18 26/07/2004 -0600, John E Koontz wrote:
> >For that matter, when did pig latin and such word games first appear?
> >I've heard of people who could rattle off pig latin versions of English
> >at conversational speeds.
>
> Perhaps mid-18th Century England? Having said that, though this following 
> link is referred to all across the Internet, nobody seems to have validated 
> its claim at all.
> http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/anthropology/anthro-l/archive/august-1995/0165.html
>
> Pig Latin as a language game might be another research route to try (if 
> you're interested):-
> http://linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-1997.10/msg01890.html
>
> FWIW, I think that at least some of these word games originated in Florence 
> in the first part of the Quattrocento... but that's another story. :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pellin!
> g.....
>  
>
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