Re: [conlang] Digest Number 432
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 23:45 |
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Irina Rempt wrote:
> I accidentally caused one a few weeks ago:
>
> custa - to catch
> custen - frog
>
> The mundane explanation is that I'd forgotten to delete the root from
> the Spare Roots File, the in-culture explanation has to do with
> eating frogs' legs...
Why not just let it be co-incidence? Every language has accidental
homophones.
That's one reason I don't have a "spare roots". I figure if I
accidentally create a homophone, well, so be it. Good co-incidnence.
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