Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

In a message dated 2/3/2003 2:17:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:


> >  When I read that, I thought of that person on this list who made an
> > early
> > conlang and decided to be rebellious by decreeing that all the
> > masculine
> > nouns ended in -a and all the feminine nouns ended in -o. I loved it!
> >
> 
> That must be me :)) . The funny part is that it was supposed to be an
> auxlang :)) . Not very auxlangish, the masculine nouns ended in -a in the
> singular and -i in the plural (pronounced [e], the only allophone there was 
> in
> the language), while feminine nouns ended in -o in the singular and -u in 
> the
> plural. My way to break stereotypes at that time was to put them on their
> head ;))) .
 That was you??? It was the very same person who gave us Maggel all along? 
Interesting that I didn't attach a name to it in my memory. Well, even as an 
auxlanger, your creations are very different from Romaclone or Ygyde! 
Although I guess I'm guilty of selling into that stereotype . . . when people 
online mistake me as being female, I tell them, "No! Look at my name again -- 
it's Neurotico! Not NeuroticA, NeuroticO!" 

 BTW, I've found myself pronouncing "Maggel" as /'mag@l/ to myself (the 
at-sign is the schwa, right? When I first saw it here, I found myself 
mistaking it for the æ sound) when reading these notes, so as to sound like 
"Dr. Moggle's Alphabet Challenge" (whose author, in fact, I believe was named 
John Magel!) Does anyone here remember that book?


> That's all there can be since Maggel's word for "tree" is |driuoj| ['dryZ]. 
> By
> the way, coming back to the original subject of the thread, this word is
> inspired in some way by some natlang word having a relationship with woods. 
> Who
> will guess what I'm talking about? ;)))))
 Are you referring to the Druids?

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