Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
From: | DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...> |
Date: | Sunday, January 23, 2000, 21:32 |
From: "daniel andreasson"
> We have a real tongue twister in Swedish.
> _vaestkustskt_ which is the adjective of 'west coast'.
> All of '-stskt' at the end has to be pronounced.
> Try to say that ten times in a row! :)
The island where the speakers of Géarthnuns reside is in the neighborhood of
the Sea of Okhotsk, so to be neighborly, I thought I'd incorporate the term
into the Géarthnuns lexicon. "Okhotsk" ends in "k", so by rights, one ought
to be able to bring it in directly. However, nouns in the nominative end in
consonant+s, which gives us "Okhotsks". "Sea of Okhotsk" becomes "Harans
Okhotsksüs". Doable, if I don't have a mouthful of potato chips. I'll have
to concede on "västkustskt", however.
Kou