Re: COMLANG?

ROGER MILLS wrote:
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> Kash has (carefully disguised) Yiddish "loans": schmuck, tuckus,
> meshugas et al...... I think someone once posted that "dali" was their
> word for "art". Of course these don't qualify as totally humorous
> COMLANGS.
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"Dali" is ea-luna for "to paint (in the artistic sense)".  Ea-luna was
full of puns, inside jokes, and backdoor borrowing. No matter how hard I
try, I can't help but put stuff like that into my languages. I tell
myself that I am going to be totally serious next time, but I never
manage to pull it off. Whenever I start coming up with names for things,
and especially if I am just filling out vocabulary on a list, there's
always the off chance of something like "dali" happening. I am surprised
that I haven't yet used "itat" ("eat-at") for "table" in any of my
conlangs yet.

The "itat" would, of course, be located next to the "siton".

I think Teliya Nevashi is pretty much free of silliness so far, but it
is also very light on vocabulary yet. I am not going to make any
promises on how it turns out in the end.

M.

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