Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings
| From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 14, 2002, 10:08 |
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:48:57 -0500
John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> > Ah yes... plural formed by 'narrowification' of the vowels. ;)
> > (though I prefer to call it 'caoilification', mar is ainm an saghas
> > focail seo 'caoil' ;))
>
> Ugh, what a hideous pair of terms.
That's why I like them ;)
> "Umlaut" or specifically
> "i-umlaut", or "i-affection", are the usual terms. It is (or rather
> was) operative in German, English, and Welsh.
Yep. But these are rather technical terms. Why would one want to talk about
such a thing non-technically? Well, to ask something like... "Hang on, did
you make that word narrow? Is that because it's 4th declension..?" etc.
(Legal notice: all discussions of grammar in previous quote are fictional)
A friend of mine calls it "sharpening", which is nice. ;)
s.
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