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Re: Common Orcish Article (Long) - was Re: tolkien?

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 18:57
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tristan McLeay <zsau@F...> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, paul-bennett wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:27:11 0000 Christian Thalmann <cinga@G...>
wrote.
> > > > >> PS Latest and possibly ugliest Meghean word; _aeohas_
"non-existence".
> > > > >Is it /a.jo.has/ or /a.ew.has/? > > > > FWIW, the tiny bit I know about Meghean leads me to read it /i:@s/
Seems like you don't actually know that tiny bit about Meghean. >:-)
> > Maybe I'm confusing Meghean with another lang, though. > > English, perhaps? Excepting either the A or the O.
The bunch of vowels and the utter lack of articulation in /i:@s/ feels rather Gaelic to me. Though |aoidheas| would be a more sensible spelling for the latter, judging from that tiny bit I believe to know about Gaelic... -- Christian Thalmann