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Re: making up words

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Friday, March 22, 2002, 6:35
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: > >[snip] > >>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. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================