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Re: Word Construction for a New Conlang

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Date:Thursday, July 8, 1999, 20:29
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 08/07/99 20:02:13  , Sally a =E9crit :

> Spelling things backwards, often. Matthias spelled backwards is: > Saihttam-- adjusted: saihtam, pronounced /'saiTam/. I'll let him > apply a meaning to it!
i don't know why you picked my name to blatantly deride it in front of all conlangers' assembly - i'll timely retaliate - while it is the only natword i can stand in this world provided m mutates into j and h makes a collapse into unpredicted tonal vowels entailing other changes so actually my name is jean-pierre. my brand new conlang fully worked out last night does not feature yucky [T]. however STM is a valid root meaning "understand" and "sayitam" (S-a-yi-T-a-M) means "(resulting) understanding" (of whatever one is told). example : hak SawaTuM-il has kawaruk e namat-ak i understand that you mock my name kayetk-al basag v=E2yavur kayaresh. but the fry-pan chokes firmly. (??? somehow i don't trust my automatic interlinear translator) any idea what root "LLS" should mean ? jean-pierre d--