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Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Thursday, October 28, 2004, 3:48
I understood you perfectly, David; :)  I was just kidding and poking a bit
of fun at Teonaht.  Thanks for the compliment.   Teonaht has its huge
problems these days.

I love the name Kelenala!  "Tongue joy!"  Let people think it's the Kalevala
and be surprised. :)  (It bugs me when Google tries to correct me.)

I'm curious to know if your correspondent replied to your correction, and if
so, what he said.

Sally

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Peterson" <ThatBlueCat@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: (Mis)Naming a Language


>I wrote: > > << > "Also, what if someone created a language with a name like Teonaht, not > knowing > that one already existed, and (with no disrespect to this imaginary > person) was far better?" >>> > > Huh. It occurs to me that the sentence I wrote was ambiguous in a bad > way. What I meant to suggest was that Sally's Teonaht was the better > language than Bizarro World Teonaht. You know, I remember when I > wrote that sentence that once I got to the part in parentheses I totally > got lost. Oops. :( > > Anyway, in light of everyone's replies, I think I'm going to change the > name of Kele to Kelenala. I googled for it, and Google said, "Did you > mean Kalevala?" A good book, so I don't mind the association. > > Anyway, "kele" in Kelenala means "enjoyment", or "to enjoy", and "nala" > means "tongue", which also means "language", so I think the pairing > is a good one. So, Kelenala it shall be, henceforth. > > Of course, now I need to go about changing it on all my webpages, and > changing the Langmaker entry, maybe getting Janko to change the name > on his webpage, and on and on... > > -David >