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Re: Pronunciations.

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, June 20, 2002, 18:17
En réponse à BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> > I have always found this phenomenon with the orthography and orthoepy > of > names being out of synch with each other very amusing. Does it occur > as > often in other languages as in (British) English? Does it occur in > anybodys Conlangs? It seems to me one could make a game out of it! >
Not yet, but it's surely gonna be a feature of Maggel :))) . I even think I could extend it to all compounds of Maggel. In Maggel composition doesn't exist as in German or Dutch, nor even as in English. It makes compounds by freezing phrases, like French does, but when the phrase is frozen it gets slowly eroded phonetically. At first I had thought to reflect this in the orthography (making interesting words that pluralise by changing the middle of the word, since Maggel is strongly head-first and frozen coumpounds tend to keep the features of the phrase itself :)) ), but for some compounds it could be different :)) . I think it's gonna be part of the language :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.