Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
>
> > You have the terminology swapped.
> >
> > etabnannimous = predictable by rule, but the rules are very complex
> > maggelit(in)ous = not predictable at all.
>
> Hmmm.  Okay, I'll take your word for it.  I had thought that Etabnannery
> referred exclusively to phonology and scripts, and that Maggelity referred
> to linguistic structure.  Where did I get that idea?  Do either refer to
> both?
>
Well, Maggel got it's name from it's complex and it's apparently random
orthography.  I have to ask Christophe, though, is there an Old Maggel in
which these words actually made sense?

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