Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

En réponse à James Landau <Neurotico@...>:

>
>  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 ;))) .

>
> > "Mag", meaning tree, is inspired by Christophe's "Maggel". I already
> had
> > "zhel" for place, so "Magzhelyagon", forest language, was an
> appropriate
> > name for a language with a hideously complicated phonology, which I
> had
> > decided would be spoken by rainforest dwellers. I was also pleased by
> the
> > resemblance to the Nihongo "moku".
>
Hehe...

>  You mean, with the M at the beginning . . . and then the velar plosive?
> I
> can see that.
>
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? ;)))))

Christophe.

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