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