Re: making up words

At 3:33 pm -0500 21/3/02, Jeff Jones wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:21:30 +0000, Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
>wrote:
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>>I've decided to play it by ear and use a (vaguely) a_posteriori approach;
>>but as root words must conform to the CVC pattern they will be
>>'hyperSchleyerized'.
>
>I've forgotten what Schleyer is known for -- please explain.
For inventing the auxlang called Volapük.  His vocabulary is almost
entirely a_posteriori (a large part, indeed, being from English).  But the
roots undergo various distortions so they are not immediately recognizable,
e.g. vol << word; pük << speak, speech.

-a is the genitive ending, so _vola pük_ = "world's speech", hence the name
Volapük.


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