[conlang] Digest Number 432

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From: Jim Taylor <friartuk@...>
To: conlang@listserv.brown.edu <conlang@...>
Date: Monday, October 02, 2000 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [conlang] Digest Number 432


I always find it interesting in any language when a word has two or more
meanings, and I thought the examples sent in by Nik were great.

When I was inventing the vocabulary for my own constructed language, Xara, I
came across quite a few duplications when sorting out the word lists. Quite
a few of them I actually did modify, but my favourite one, which I kept,
was:

jerex = music
jerex = to live

xo kaxalme jilfejan (With best wishes)
Jim.

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>Message: 18
>   Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 00:42:58 -0400
>   From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Subject: Some amusing co-incidences
>
>Setting shoebox to arrange the words solely by form (I normally have it
>arrange words by word class, then by English gloss), I discovered a few
>amusing co-incidences.
>
>U-dakív = Glory (Hyphens are inserted to point out the root)
>Dakí = 5
>   Interesting because 5 is considered an evil number!
>
>Lakázi-uki = Show mercy to
>S-Lakáaz-uki = Deceive
>
>P-láif = Path - I wonder if this was some subconcious influence?
>
>U-lastá = Prophecy
>La-lásta = Bird
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