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Re: "Kauderwelsch" (was: LUNATIC SURVEY: 2005)

From:Damian Yerrick <tepples@...>
Date:Saturday, February 26, 2005, 20:41
Sally Caves wrote:

> So Kauderwelsch may mean "gibberish" now, but it may have meant > "weird foreign language" in previous eras. Do you think the title of the > series is a reference to that older meaning? > > I think Kauderwelsch is an excellent application to what we do, here, and
I
> don't find it uncomplimentary at all! :)
Perhaps for those artlangers who share Tolkien's love for Welsh patterns of phonology and morphology :) -- Damian