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Re: shopping list's too long...

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Monday, November 30, 1998, 18:53
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Andrew Smith wrote:

> I was writing my shopping list before I went to the supermarket on > Saturday and I wrote lettuce, and the thought went through my head "Now > that's lla llaethyg in Brithenig". Suddenly I knew I had to work out what > all the rest were. An afternoon's work discovered about half the things I > buy could be translated offhand from words I already know or have on file, > but I still have find things like "vegemite", "salami", and "weet-bix"! I > think conlanging is its own punishment! > > Has anyone else had this happen to them?
Yep...how do you think the Brithenig list of musical instruments got going? :-) Speaking of which, I haven't heard final judgement on them. Did I do a good enough job at crafting them, or botch the whole thing miserably? As for your three queries: vegemite and weet-bix seem to be made-up trademark type names from the early 20th cen., and I can't make much about salami except that it derives ultimately from Lat. "salare" (to salt) through mid 19th c. Italian "salame", a salty sausage taste sensation; and I would suspect that they would enter B rather unchanged. In the same way "Nestle Quick" chocolate drink has entered Spanish as "Nesquick". There may or may not be spelling changes (fegemait -- ugh!); so you may want to retain their Saxon spellings. Unless Fred Walker (inventor of vegemite, according to one Ozish site) was really a Kemrese ex-pat. living in Oz? ;-) Padraic.
> > - andrew. >