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Re: Lexicons and Langauge Borrowing

From:Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 2:59
=46Flores <fflores@...> wrote:
> I wrote: > > I don't borrow words from any natlang, > > at least at a conscious level. >=20 > Now I remembered I had some unconscious loans or > similarities noted in an old text file. >=20 > Have any of you notices such things in your own conlangs? > I think it's a very interesting phenomenon.
The Gladilatian word for "white" is "wat". I swear I did not notice the similarity until some time after the word was coined. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D Dennis Paul Himes <> dennis@himes.connix.com homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm =20 Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance = as the air." - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse = 96-99