Re: Crosswords

I'm quite sure I just read somewhere that Bern (the Swiss capital) has
something to do with bears as well, so it was kind of surprising to see it
here too. (:
I have a question. I noticed that most of the words go in the order WG +
Scand. But "potappel" takes it the other way round -- why not, say,
aarpatet, or appotet etc.?

Oh, also, what are the X's that appear sporadically inter the WG list?

Eugene

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Ingmar Roerdinkholder <
ingmar.roerdinkholder@...> wrote:

> What a coincidence! I didn't even know "crosswords" was an existing term in
> conlanging, when I created Middelsprake about four years ago. Crosswording
> is one of MS' characteristics. See the text below, from "Concise Outlines
> of
> Middelsprake" (2004)
> Ingmar Roerdinkholder
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Middelsprake/ is where you can find the
> whole
> file
>
> "...
> A characteristic feature of Middelsprake are the so called
> krysworde or cross words, which are not a kind of puzzles but
> crossings between words that differ quite a lot in the source
> languages, mostly between Scandinavian and Western Germanic forms
> See chapter 12 for a few examples


>
> <snip>