Re: R: Re: The most common sounds (Was: Re: backwards conlanging)

Mangiat wrote:

> Great! The scheme E.A. Poe used in his short story 'the Golden Scrabble' (or
> at least, TGS is a retranslation from Italian!)
"The Gold-Bug".  "Bug" in this sense = "insect".  I can't imagine what the
translator was thinking.  Or by "scrabble" do you mean "scarab"/"scarabaeus"?

If so, a neat mini-phone-game!  "Scrabble" in English means "to scratch, claw,
or grope about clumsily or frantically, to struggle by or as if by scraping or
scratching."

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