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Re: CHAT: another new language to check out

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 19:40
Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson : > > > >I like the name "Aiola", assuming it's pronounced roughly as I'm guessing; > >[ajOla]. Does it mean anything? > > My problem with the name of that language is that it sounds far too much > like "aïoli" (that's a i-trema), the name of a Southern French sauce > strongly based on garlic (and everybody knows what garlic does to one's > breath ;)) ). Not sure I'd want to speak that ;)) .
*chink!* (That's the sound of a euro coin falling.) And _Aioli_ [ajO'li:] was the name of a girl who figured in a story set in one of my coniverses back in my early teens. I guess my linguistic tastes have not changed too much in the last decade! Andreas