Re: OT: Defining words and how they are used
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 24, 2006, 14:20 |
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Interestingly, outsiders (read colleagues of mine interested in this who
haven't heard of conlang) would call this "xenography." That term, however,
has connotations of "glossographia," i.e., writing something in a script
that is foreign to you through some kind of spiritual agent. :)
Sally
----- Original Message -----
From: "caeruleancentaur" <caeruleancentaur@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Defining words and how they are used
> >Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
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>>I've heard both "neography" and "conscript".
>
>>There's a Yahoo!Group (neographies) dedicated to them.
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> Not that I have anything against homonyms, but <conscript> is already
> in use.
>
> I would use neography.
>
> <conscript> happens to be one of those pairs of verb/noun
> heterophones: 'conscript / con'script.
>
> Charlie
>
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