Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> My conlang Sohlob was originally _Sahrab_, but then I discovered
> that this is a Pakistani surname, so lest I offend some Mr/Ms
> Sahrab I changed the name to _Sahlab_, only to discover that this
> is a (modern) Egyptian drink of some kind(*), so I changed it
> again to _Sohlob_, this time Googling to make sure it didn't exist.
> Somehow the Egyptian association stuck though, for the conculture
> and the land where it is located bears som similarity to ancient
> Egypt.
>
> (* I also had troubles keeping apart the lang's /r_0/ and /S/ in
> my own pronunciation, so I changed all instances of /r_0/ to /K/
> which is a cooler sound overall.  Later I changed /S/ to /s\/ --
> a much more distinctive sound -- and resurrected the /r_0/ ~ /K/
> distinction in a dialect of the language, which has three dialects,
> a fourth in the works and a sister language planned.)
Nevertheless, the thing the name always make me think of is Shelob. No offense
to arachnophobe sohlobophones!

                                                       Andreas

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