Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

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
>