LINGUIST List 9.999  Sun Jul 5 1998  Disc: Equality among
languages  Editor for this issue: Elaine Halleck <>     1.
teruko, Equality among languages  Message 1: Equality among
languages  Date: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 04:48:29 +0000 From: teruko <>
Subject: Equality among languages  In reply to:List 7.890 (which
I have just noticed was raging two years ago. The machine will
give my name as "Teruko", whereas it is in fact Michael
Sandeman).  David Harris observes, "If your speech partner
doesn't know the other language, you make the attempt to stretch
the functionality of the language s/he does understand in order
to say as precisely as you can what it is you want to say".
However, having found some points of interest in an article
dealing with dignity in shougi, published in a Japanese
newspaper, I wrote to the author seeking their clarification. In
the reply I received there was a particularly puzzling passage,
this was explained to me, by a friend, as having been inserted
to make the meaning "more vague". There is