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Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

From:James Landau <neurotico@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 15:30
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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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>