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--- On Sun, 7/5/09, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: I wrote: > > Sorry, I'm not sure what "it" referrs to. Do you > mean the list, Rhaetic or something else? > > > > Adam Thomas wrote: > >Yes, Rhaetic, because it is on your list now. No, the Essentialist List is not my creation. In fact, it's been so long I've forgotten whose baby that was (John Cowan?). Reatic is interesting, but it isn't on my list of languages to learn. In fact the only Romance languages I'd really like to be proficient in are Spanish (in which I can make a fool of myself while getting my idea across) and Portuguese because it sounds so cool when Brazilians speak it. I'd like to learn Romanian and Provencal or Catalan, but don't have access to enough speakers to make learning them feasible. Eventhough I've spent a great deal of time on Carrajina and have learned a good deal about Romance langs in the process, my main interest in spoken natlangs lies in the Sinitic languages. Taiwanese (Southern Min) is an especial favorite, but I'd love to learn a Wu dialect, Cantonese, Hakka and I certainly wouldn't turn down an opportunity to learn a Xiang or Gan dialect either. Other than that I'm fascinated by signed languages and have studied two (American Sign Language [ASL] and Taiwan Sign Language [TSL]). Adam