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Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 9:34
En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:

> > > Oh, thankyou! /me pulls out his knife labelled 'high vowels' and > points > it menacingly in the direction of Ygyde. >
Which quickly retracts to Ygde in order to not have to feel the blade ;))) .
> > > No, because while the irregularities are normal, there are many > options > for how the irregularities come about so you don't know which regular > irregularities we're talking about; and anyway, didn't you see > Padraic's > definition of Maggelity? (Etabnannery is regularity hidden behind a > facade of apparent irregularity; Maggelity is pure irregularity, or > perhaps irregularity sometimes hidden behind a facade of apparent > regularity.) >
Well, I only saw what Arthaey showed on Conlang. I'm not on Langmaker2. But the definition fits Maggelity well too :) .
> >> > >Hehe, true silent letters in Maggel are not rare, but more common are > seemingly > >silent letters which actually have somewhat of an influence :) . > > > Which're much more fun. >
I especially like letters which, in order to make sense, are to be taken as part of two digraphs at the same time, so that you actually have digraphs coalescing in the orthography ;)) .
> > > You'd have even more fun considering the word critique, I imagine ;P >
I tend to write it in English to mean "someone whose job is to criticise". I think it's common in British use too?
> > > I wouldn't know. What's the difference between Romantic and Classical? >
Well, I know *that* difference. But I always thought that the Dada movement was just the early first step of post-modernism...
> > > I should point out that at the moment of regularisation, the > nominative > form (which it gets regularised to) is sitting at something like > /CouM\/ > or /Cou/. But do say what you think of it if your eyes stop rolling. >
Well, I haven't much to say so far, except that it's impressive how much work you already put into it :)) . And I really like to see Maggelity or near- Maggelity emerge from perfectly sound sound changes (it makes me think that Maggel may actually be plausible ;)))) ). Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Tristan <kesuari@...>
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