Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

On Friday 31 January 2003 03:43 pm, you wrote:
> Question:
>
> Have any of yall created an 'a priori' language with a lot of 'a
> posteriori' vocabulary (i.e., with a lot of the lexicon from natlangs)
I created Vala Lakha with its sprachbund languages, and named one of the
characters in my story Uan, pronounced /Uan/, not /wan/.  I started fooling
around with Gaelic over the holidays, - housesitting can be so boring - and
discovered that |uan| in Gaelic is "lamb".  In my story it's "snowflake".

Go figure!

Wesley Parish

 or
> the reverse (an 'a posteriori' language with a lot of 'a priori'
> vocabulary)?
>
> I was thinking of creating a "fun" personal sort of conlang picking out
> things from languages I like and adding my own stuff.  I want to know if
> and how often others do mixes like that.
>
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