Re: NATLANG: Scary Document

I believe Modern Russian could also be mentioned, since for a time (1930s, I
believe) they had a language-planning organization set up, which duly
released such fledglings as:

|samoflot| for "aeroplane"

|samo| for "self" , |flot| for flight, on the same basis as the |auto| +
|mobile|.

And anyway, as I believe I may have implied earlier, language planners tend to
make a conlang of a language.  Even if it is as fascinating a conlang as
post-Paninian Sanskrit ...

Wesley Parish

On Sunday 06 April 2003 10:33 pm, you wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > I have to say though, Scots is an interesting language.  More Germanic
> > than English.
>
> I adore Scots.  I grew up hearing it quite a bit.  Is there a body
> in charge of the Scots language?  I suppose they would face problems
> many language planners face, such as creating new "native" words by
> various means that no one uses or understands, or using the English
> words everyone understands but which distort the look and feel (and,
> in some languages, function) of the language.  Look at some of the
> loathsome English loans in Japanese!
>
> Plenty of creative methods exist; Icelandic has been mentioned (and
> I believe Faeroese follows their example, right?).  Don't forget
> Modern Hebrew.  Even Arabic has some nifty methods.  Turkish also, I
> suppose, but I don't know too much about what they did.
>
> Scots, however, is at an advantage in that it's close enough to
> English that Scottifications (is that neologism?) of English words
> and skillfully crafted calques would lead to something both
> recognisable and Scottishy.
>
> Dialecticisms and obsolete words could also be utilised more
> efficiently, but this won't help for things like "television" and
> "heavy water nuclear reactor".
>
> As the wise Hanuman says: "Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage,
> Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!"
>
> Cheers,
> Eamon
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