Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

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

>
>  That was you??? It was the very same person who gave us Maggel all
> along?
Well, at least I do have a language like that, and I did mention it this way on
the list ;)) . So I seem to fit the criteria here ;)))) .

> 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!
LOL! It was also my first serious attempt (read: non-Latin-clone) at a conlang,
and I was something like 15. And I never seriously thought it would really
become an auxlang. The only auxlangish trait was the small number of different
sounds of the language (and they were not chosen for frequency ;))) ). I mean,
how can a language with exceptions be an auxlang?! ;))))

> 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!"
>
LOL. In my fanfiction on my site, the female "bad guy" is called Nezayo, while
one of the male "bad guys" is called Nemina. The endings were on purpose ;)))
(the two other male "bad guys" are Netoy and Nespi :) ).

>  BTW, I've found myself pronouncing "Maggel" as /'mag@l/ to myself (the
>
> at-sign is the schwa, right?
Yep :) .

 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?
>
I actually never heard of it!!! I want to know more about it! I love
synchronicities like that!!!! :)

>
>  Are you referring to the Druids?
>
Nope, but Peter found it already. The influence was the French word "dryade",
which comes from Greek IIRC. And I wonder if it's not realted through PIE with
the word "druid". Whaddya think?

Christophe.

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