[Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 7/11/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:


At one time I had an old medical dictionary (ca. 1820), and the entry
> for "cadaver" started with "A cadaver is generally immobile."
> Immobility for these dead languages means that they are no longer able
> to move, and generate new life.  We cannot expect that the new
> terminology that we invent for it will be accepted by the people who
> normally speak that language, because those people don't exist.  Our
> newly invented words do not rise above the level of fantasy.  The
> resulting encyclopedia is indeed to be used in this day and age, but
> only by people who do not exist.


OT: Are you quite  sure they weren't simply referring to "rigor mortis"?

And, no, rigor mortis is neither immediate, nor permanent.

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]