Re: Conlangs in History

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:54:56 -0400 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> > never having to wonder "what the heck is 'agenothree'?"
> I wonder - is that /edZnoThri/ or /edZEnoTri/?  And why didn't they
> just
> use the shorter "Nitric" for "Nitric acid"?  Of course, if they had
> stuck with a corruption of HNO3, it seems that it would've been
> corrupted further, after thousands of years, perhaps down to
> something
> like /edZTri/ or /edZTi/.
> AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor
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I always thought that it was something like /@"dZin@'Tri/.
I seem to remember from _Dragonsdawn_ that they began to call it that
because the person who taught them how to use HNO3 against the Thread had
some kind of "unusual" accent, and called it that.  So everyone else i
guess just followed suit.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment
  that you touch perfect speed.  And that isn't flying a thousand
  miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light.
  Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have
  limits.  Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
                    ~ _jonathan livingston seagull_