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Re: REQUEST: How to Pronounce Your Conlang's Name

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Saturday, May 28, 2005, 23:30
Emaelivpeith H. S. Teoh:
> Also, some errata: 'maggelity' is named after Christophe Grandsire's > conlang, Maggel, which sports an orthography that has a completely > counterintuitive correspondence with actual pronunciation. I think the > original word was an adjective, maggelitous or maggelitinous. (I may > have coined the latter. :-P) > > IIRC, Etabnannery was also named after someone's conlang, but I forgot > whose.
I link to the historical documents: http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0207B&L=conlang&P=25945 It looks like Muke coined the original terms and Tristan defined them thusly: Maggelity /m@gE:lIti/ (noun) The state of being entirely unpredictable. [from _Maggel_ a constructed language by Christophe Grandsire, which had an unpredictable orthography +_ity_] Etabnannery /r@mn{n@ri/ (noun) The state of appearing entirely unpredictable, but, upon closer analysis, failing at even being that. [from _Etábnanni_ a constructed language by Tristan McLeay, which was *supposed* to have an unpredictable orthography, but ended up just having a confusing one. Damn people trying to make patterns everywhere. At least it's a bugger to typeset!... err... back to the derivation +_ery_] -- AA http://conlang.arthaey.com/ (Gmail WARNING: watch the Reply-To!)