Re: OT: Conlangea Dreaming

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Lucky Utakassí speaker.  Though could í by itself work?  (My "real"
> family name is pronounced /i/, but the stupid English transliteration
> gets said as /li/--not that it matters.)
Interesting.  Yes, Í by itself would be acceptable.

So, how'd /i/ get turned into /li/, do you know?

> ObConlang: Do family names, if they exist, come first or last or
> elsewhere in your conlangs?
Last, because that's where all modifiers go, including genitives.  So,
it would be so-and-so of family such-and-such..

> In "Alas, Lirette" (F&SF Jan. 2001, forthcoming)
That's your story?  I'll have to look for that magazine then.